Prosecutors used rap lyrics to help send a man to death row in Texas. It's not an uncommon tactic

Attorneys for a Black man scheduled to be executed in Texas say the introduction of rap lyrics he wrote biased an almost all-white jury when they decided to sentence him to death


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