The only Native American on federal death row is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene before he becomes at least the fourth federal inmate executed in 2020 following a 17-year hiatus.
Lezmond Mitchell, a member of the Navajo nation, is set to be executed Aug. 26.
He’s asking the court to allow him to interview the jurors who heard his case to determine if any of them were racially biased during his conviction and death sentence relating to a 2001 carjacking that ended in the murder of a 63-year-old woman and her 9-year-old granddaughter. Both also were members of ...
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