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Playing Politics with the Death Penalty

By Michael Blankenship

RALEIGH, N.C. ? A top North Carolina House Democrat whose daughter was murdered 25 years ago said Wednesday he wants the state Republican Party to retract a mailer it sent out alleging that a law he voted for could parole death row prisoners. The mailer, which was sent to residents in Majority Leader Hugh Holliman?s district in Davidson County, focuses on his support for the Racial Justice Act in 2009. The state law allows people on death row to receive life in prison without the possibility of parole if they can prove, with statistics and other evidence, that race played a role in decisions by prosecutors or jurors to seek the death penalty. Read more... The bottom line is that Republicans have been called out on the lie regarding the impact and intent of North Carolina's Racial Justice Act...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).