USA - Kentucky. The Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence of Roger Wheeler

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Kentucky officials seeking to reinstate the death sentence of Roger Wheeler. Wheeler, Black, was sentenced to death in 2001 for the October 2, 1997 murders of Nigel Malone and Nairobi Warfield. The justices ruled that a federal appeals court was wrong to overturn Roger Wheeler's sentence based on the exclusion of a juror who expressed reservations about the death penalty. On February 20, 2015, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the sentence after ruling the juror should not have been dismissed. The 2-1 ruling said the juror eventually said he could consider the full range of punishment. The high court said in an unsigned opinion that the appeals court did not give enough deference to the state court ruling.