Supreme court sides with Mississippi man on death row in racial bias case

The US supreme court on Thursday ruled in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Black man convicted of capital murder and on death row in Mississippi , who claimed that his conviction was due to the jury having racial bias. The justices sided with Pitchford in a 5-4 vote. Pitchford, now 40, was just 18 when he and another teen robbed a grocery store in 2004. …