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Monday, May 14, 2007

Death sentence upheld

The Supreme Court today let stand a death sentence for a Georgia death row inmate. John W. Hightower of Milledgeville was convicted in 1998 of killing his wife and two stepdaughters. Hightower, who is black, claimed that prosecutors improperly struck blacks from the jury.

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