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"State Senate takes up death penalty," is the title of Mike Hixenbaugh's report in the Rocky Mount Telegram. A bill initially intended to protect racial minorities from discriminatory sentencing in capital cases also ? to the disappointment of its original sponsors ? might reactivate the death penalty in North Carolina. In a major twist last week, the bill known as the Racial Justice Act was approved by the N.C. Senate, but not before Republican leaders added an amendment removing obstacles to carrying out executions. Because of pending litigation in the N.C. Supreme Court, a death-row prisoner hasn?t been executed in North Carolina since August 2006. N.C. Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, the amendment sponsor, said failing to carry out capital punishment for people convicted of murder has been ?a miscarriage of justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).