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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by prosecutors in the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Mark Johnson. The appeal was brought by the state after a federal appeals court overturned Johnson's death sentence, stating that the trial judge "told the jury that parole eligibility could not be considered when plainly it could be." The U.S. Supreme Court has held in the past that, under certain circumstances, juries must be told that a life sentence means that an inmate will never be paroled. Johnson is scheduled for resentencing in December.