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The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a gay death row inmate in South Dakota who says jurors were biased against him because of his sexual orientation.
The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place the death sentence for Charles Rhines. Rhines was convicted in the stabbing death of a doughnut shop employee in Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1992.
Rhines tried to persuade the court to take an interest in his case after the justices last year ruled that evidence of racial bias in the jury room allows a judge to consider setting aside a verdict. According to Rhines. one juror said he should not be sentenced to life in prison because he is gay and would be housed with other men.
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