In a powerful 8-to-1 decision in late February, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an appeals court had made it unduly hard for an African-American Texas Death Row inmate to get a hearing on a claim his jury had been unconstitutionally purged of blacks. The ruling in the case of Thomas Miller-El, which technically sends the case back to the 5th… return to article
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