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Supreme Court Declines to Hear ‘Gay Bias’ Case

Charles Rhines argued jurors sent him to death row in part because they knew he was gay.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear arguments in the case of Charles Rhines, a South Dakota prisoner who claims he was

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