Terry Pitchford, now 40, was 18 when he and a friend decided to rob the Crossroads Grocery in northern Mississippi. The friend shot the store owner three times, fatally wounding him, but was under 18 and ineligible for the death penalty. Pitchford was tried for capital murder and sentenced to death.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for Terry Pitchford, a Black death row inmate in Mississippi, over racial bias in the jury that convicted him.
