Article: Black youth sentenced to die for cop's death. (Ronald Ray Howard) (Brief Article)

A Texas jury rejected 19-year-old Ronald Ray Howard's defense that rap music caused him to murder a state trooper and sentenced him to death by lethal injection.

Howard was on trial for the April 1992 shooting death of Trooper Bill Davidson, who had caught Howard driving a stolen car in Houston.

Howard, an alleged crack cocaine ...

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