Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on Friday, part of what he ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose ... 100% of the time while similar white defendants received a death sentence ...

Prosecutors in the trial of Chelsea striker Sam Kerr, who called a police officer 'stupid and white', have asked the jury if perceptions would be different had she said 'stupid and black'.

Racial Bias Tainted Jury Selection and ... bias in the fact that Black defendants in capital cases were sentenced to death 100% of the time while similar white defendants received a death sentence ...

Newton, most murder trails were comprised of 12 white men. Black people ... to them a little bit nicely and when we got into the jury room, I was immediately selected as foreman.