Hi, John. I thought the immigrant was officially from Montenegro or someplace like that, although I also thought I'd read that he was Hispanic (Iberian?). The black guy from Juneau may have been innocent.

That was the basis for the Supreme Court's Furman v. Georgia decision, forty five years ago, getting everyone in the country off death row. An earlier decision that year, California v. Robert Page Anderson,  included Sirhan Sirhan.The DP was clearly applied overabundantly to minorities. So the statutes had to be rewritten afterward, though it didn't change things all that much.