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| Foster claims racial bias, takes death row case to Supreme Court |
| By wsbradio.com- Bill Caiaccio |
| Published: 11/02/2015 |
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Washington, DC — A man from Georgia says he's on death row because he's black and the jury who convicted him was all white. The case of Timothy Tyrone Foster goes before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday. He's been on death row in Georgia for nearly three decades for the murder of a 79-year old white woman at her home in Rome in August 1986. Queen Madge White was sexually assaulted and strangled. Four months before the murder, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Batson v. Kentucky excluding a prospective juror because of his or her race is unconstitutional. Read More. |
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