Supreme Court Block Execution; Justices Agree That Prosecutors Withheld Evidence at Convict's Trial
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › February 25, 2004
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, acting on a case that has become a cause celebre among capital punishment opponents, overturned the death sentence of a long-serving Texas inmate who claimed prosecutors played dirty and withheld evidence at his trial.
The court's action, announced Tuesday, came in the case of a man who came within minutes of execution before the body stepped in last year to stop it.See the full content of this document
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Supreme Court Block Execution; Justices Agree That Prosecutors Withheld Evidence at Convict's Trial
Delma Banks, one of the country's longest-serving death row inmates, was sentenc...
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