Lambda Legal Decries Execution of South Dakota Gay Man Sentenced to Die by Jury Tainted With Antigay Bias
November 05, 2019
November 05, 2019
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, Nov. 5 -- Lambda Legal issued the following news release:
Last night, Charles Rhines, a South Dakota gay man, was put to death by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final motion that would have allowed Rhines to bring new evidence to the Court showing that antigay bias may have motivated the jury to sentence him to death. Recently, it was discovered that jurors suggested that sentencing Mr. Rhines to life in prison with other men woul . . .
Last night, Charles Rhines, a South Dakota gay man, was put to death by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final motion that would have allowed Rhines to bring new evidence to the Court showing that antigay bias may have motivated the jury to sentence him to death. Recently, it was discovered that jurors suggested that sentencing Mr. Rhines to life in prison with other men woul . . .