Roberts pans Texas death penalty opinion (AP)

Posted on Thursday 26 April 2007

US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. The US Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned three death sentences which were issued to convicts in the 1990s in the southern state of Texas, saying the men deserved new trials.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - When Chief Justice John Roberts took his center seat for the first time in October 2005, John Paul Stevens, the court’s senior justice, wished him “a long and happy career in our common calling.”



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