Racist Juror Claim Won’t Get High Court Review

An explosive claim that a racist juror sent a black man to death row in Oklahoma was just denied U.S. Supreme Court review, bringing Julius Jones one step closer to execution for a murder he has long-denied committing.

In rejecting Jones’ petition, the high court declined to add to next term’s docket the hot-button question of whether the justice system can tolerate the juror’s alleged remarks that Julius Jones’ trial was “a waste of time” and that they should “just take the nigger out and shoot him behind the jail.”

The petition was Jones’ latest legal salvo in his ongoing ...