Terry Pitchford
Coverage of Terry Pitchford in the Nexus archive.
- The state of the death penalty at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of three death row inmates, overturning lower court decisions in Whitton v. Dixon, Pitchford v. Cain, and Hamm v. Smith. The rulings highlighted issues with DNA evidence handling, jury selection, and assessing intellectual disability, while states increased executions in 2025, with 47 people put to death. The Court has denied all 2026 execution delay requests but did not halt any executions.
- Supreme Court sides with death row inmate in challenge to racial discrimination in jury selection
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Pitchford v. Cain that a Mississippi trial judge improperly analyzed racial discrimination claims in jury selection, leading to the overturning of Terry Pitchford's conviction and death sentence. The case involved the prosecution's use of peremptory challenges to remove Black jurors, which violated the Batson v. Kentucky ruling against racially biased jury selection.
- Supreme court sides with Mississippi man on death row in racial bias case
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Black man on death row in Mississippi, who argued that Black jurors were excluded from his trial. Pitchford, who was 18 at the time of his conviction for murder, claimed racial bias influenced his conviction.
- Supreme court sides with Mississippi man on death row in racial bias case
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Black man on death row in Mississippi, in a case alleging racial bias during his trial. Pitchford, who was 18 when convicted of capital murder, argued that Black jurors were excluded from his jury.
- Supreme Court sides with Mississippi man on death row in racial bias case
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Mississippi man on death row, who argued for two decades that his conviction was invalid due to racially biased jury selections. The case centered on claims of racial bias in the selection of jurors during his trial.
- Supreme Court rules for Black death row inmate from Mississippi over racial bias in makeup of jury
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Black death row inmate Terry Pitchford from Mississippi, who claimed racial bias in his jury's composition. The decision addresses whether Pitchford's lawyers adequately objected to a trial judge's rulings and whether Mississippi's state Supreme Court reasonably upheld them, with historical ties to prosecutor Doug Evans' past discriminatory jury dismissals.