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A death-row inmate claimed the jury foreman violated his fair-trial rights by reading out loud from Romans. By This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and javascript-enabled browser. Reporter Warren Richey discusses how the US Supreme Court declined to hear a case about Bible reading in a death-sentence verdict. WASHINGTON - A Texas death-row inmate has lost his bid for a new sentencing hearing after complaining that the jury foreman at his capital murder trial read a Bible passage aloud to the entire jury before the panel returned his death sentence. Lawyers for Jimmie Urbano Lucero had asked the US Supreme Court to take up the case to examine whether reading Bible passages aloud during jury deliberations violates fair-trial rights guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. On Monday, the high court declined... [read full story]
