Federal Appeals Court Exposes Racial Bias in Alabama Death Penalty Case
A federal appeals court reveals Alabama prosecutors’ racial discrimination in jury selection, violating the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death—highlighting persistent systemic bias in the state’s criminal justice system.
The recent ruling by a federal appeals court has uncovered yet another example of racial injustice deeply embedded within Alabama’s legal system. In a decisive 2-1 decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Alabama prosecutors systematically excluded Black jurors during the capital trial of Michael Sockwell, violating his 14th Amendment rights and calling his death sentence into question. Sockwell was convicted in the killing of former Montgomery County Sheriff Isaiah Harris back in 1990. The case is riddled with troubling elements, including allegations that prosecutors purposefully rejected nearly 80% of eligible Black jurors while dismissing only about 20%...
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