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Death Penalty

A Texas appeals court on Monday stayed the execution of convicted murderer Mark Robertson based on claims that an attorney defending him at his 1991 trial kept black jurors off the panel because he thought they wouldn’t be sympathetic to his client.

AUSTIN, Texas – A Texas appeals court on Monday stayed the execution of convicted murderer Mark Robertson based on claims that an attorney defending him at his 1991 trial kept black jurors off the panel because he thought they wouldn’t be sympathetic to his client.

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