Supreme Court upholds death sentence for racially motivated murder

Supreme Court upholds death sentence for racially motivated murder

July 6, 2009 03:00:00 am

On July 6, 1983, the US Supreme Court upheld the death sentence that was given in part for the racial motivation behind a murder in Barclay v. Florida.

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