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Supreme Court Overturns Mississippi Death Sentence Over Jury Bias

5/28/2026

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The U.S. Supreme Court reversed Terry Pitchford’s 2006 death-penalty conviction, a Mississippi Batson reversal since 2019.
Prosecutor Doug Evans dismissed four Black jurors in Pitchford’s trial and had excluded Black jurors in the Curtis Flowers cases.
Pitchford was convicted for the 2006 robbery of Crossroads Grocery near Grenada, Mississippi, where his accomplice shot owner Reuben Britt, a conviction that a district judge overturned in 2023 before Fifth Circuit reinstated it.

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The U.S. Supreme Court reversed Terry Pitchford’s 2006 death-penalty conviction, a Mississippi Batson reversal since 2019.
Prosecutor Doug Evans dismissed four Black jurors in Pitchford’s trial and had excluded Black jurors in the Curtis Flowers cases.
Pitchford was convicted for the 2006 robbery of Crossroads Grocery near Grenada, Mississippi, where his accomplice shot owner Reuben Britt, a conviction that a district judge overturned in 2023 before Fifth Circuit reinstated it.