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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Apr 27, 2023

The Tennessean reports that three U.S. Supreme Court justices penned a dissent on Monday after the court declined to hear the case of Kevin B. Burns, a Tennessee man who was convicted of murder and is currently awaiting execution. Burns argued that counsel at his 1995 trial and sentencing were ineffective and that they failed to introduce key facts and challenge the state’s narrative that Burns himself pulled the trigger of the gun that killed two men.