Court debates death row race issue

Thursday, October 17, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court took up another death penalty issue Wednesday, hearing an appeal from a black man who says the overwhelmingly white jury that put him on Texas' death row was selected on the basis of race.

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