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US executes gay man who said trial tainted by homophobia
The US state of South Dakota on Monday executed an inmate who said that jurors at his trial were prejudiced against him because he was gay. Charles Rhines, 63, was put to death by lethal injection soon after the Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch appeal by his lawyers claiming that his trial was tainted. Rhines was sentenced to death in 1993 for killing an employee in a shop he was robbing in the rural state.
PETA ridiculed, criticized for comparing 'speciesism' with racism, homophobia and ableism
