The Supreme Court of the United States has really been on one lately.

I mean, there's the obvious thing.

But did you hear that it's okay to put innocent people to death now?

A new Supreme Court ruling limits the legal challenges defendants can make if they were

represented by a terrible public defender.

And there's a guy on death row right now who might get executed as a result.

Henry Lee Jones was sentenced to death for killing a four-year-old girl, but just a few

years ago a judge tossed out the verdict and ordered a retrial because of a shoddy defense.

Today's ruling means that retrial won't happen.

On today's explain, we're going to tell you the story of Barry Jones and how his case got

up to the Supreme Court and how the Supreme Court decided that innocence is no longer enough

to exonerate someone from being executed for a crime they maybe didn't commit.

Today, explained Sean Romsfram, we're going to try and wrap our heads around a doozy

of the Supreme Court decision.

It says innocence isn't necessarily enough to exonerate someone who could have been

wrongly convicted, even if that person might die.

The person who might die first as a result is named Barry Jones.

Before we get to the Supreme Court, we're going to tell you Barry's story.

This is not a story for kids.

In fact, if you're not in the mood to hear about murder and rape, you might want to skip

it.

We will give you a moment here.

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