A condemned Tennessee prisoner is waiting to hear whether he will be spared the death chamber after he claimed prosecutors illegally excluded African Americans from the jury pool. Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman (ah-BOO’-ah-LEE’) (AHB’-dur-RAK’-mahn), who is black, faces an April 16 execution date for the 1986 murder of Patrick Daniels. Abdur’Rahman’s claim relies on a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision in a Georgia case where prosecutors illegally excluded African Americans from a jury.
