Supreme Court temporary stays execution of Keith Tharpe

Published September 27, 2017 5:03am ET



The Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of Georgia inmate Keith Tharpe’s death sentence Tuesday night after his legal team argued that one of his jurors harbored a racial bias and voted for the death penalty because he is black.

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