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The latest news on one capital litigation front in North Carolina

By Douglas A. Berman

Though North Carolina has not had an execution in nearly five years, it has plenty of notable death penalty litigation on-going.  Though I am not sure of the exact status of the on-going litigation over the state's Racial Justice Act, this local article, headlined "N.C. Supreme Court to hear arguments about death-penalty protocol," provides the latest news on the state's lethal injection litigation: An administrative law judge was right to order North Carolina's statewide elected officials to revise the protocol for the execution of prisoners on death row, according to attorneys who are preparing to make that case to the state Supreme Court on Monday. The state's top court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case involving five death-row inmates that has partly contributed to an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment in North Carolina...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 14, 2011 (boomark / email).