Search for: "Keith Tharpe (DEATH PENALTY)" Results 1 - 5 of 5
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
20 Sep 2017, 2:00 pm
  In 1991, a jury in Jones County, Georgia, sentenced Keith Tharpe, a Black man, to death for the murder of his sister-in-law. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 10:37 am by Austin Koltonowski
The US Supreme Court [official site] on Monday blocked the execution of Georgia inmate Keith Tharpe, ordering [opinion, PDF] the federal appeals court in Atlanta to examine claims that a juror voted for the death sentence because Tharpe was black. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 11:49 am by John Floyd
  Racist Juror Sits on Death Penalty Case   And it was the n-word that was instrumental in sending Keith Tharpe to a death cell in the State of Georgia, a state with an ugly history of racism. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 8:43 am by Amy Howe
The summary decision came in the case of Keith Tharpe, who in 1991 was sentenced to death for the murder of his sister-in-law. [read post]
3 Mar 2019, 2:30 pm by David Lat
[Inside Edition] * The Keith Tharpe case, far from representing an isolated injustice, reflects and embodies the racist roots of the death penalty in America, according to Stephen Cooper. [read post]