In some criminal cases, Marshall might be able to win a life sentence instead of execution.
By the time the US supreme court banned the death penalty in cases of adult rape, in 1977, Thurgood Marshall had been a justice on the court for 10 years.
“The thing about Thurgood Marshall is his whole life is incredible,” Hudlin said, in a phone interview.
Of the 455 men executed for rape between 1930 and 1972, 405 were African American, Marshall had noted in a separate court decision.