Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

More From North Carolina

By standdown

"Bishops oppose death penalty bill," is the AP report in today's News & Observer of Raleigh.North Carolina's Roman Catholic bishops say changes by the state Senate to a bill designed to prevent racial bias in the death penalty are "beyond comprehension."A priest read a letter Thursday from Bishop Peter Jugis of the Charlotte diocese and Bishop Michael Burbidge of Raleigh at a news conference outside the Legislative Building.Other religious leaders attending the event agreed they're unhappy with how the Senate approved the Racial Justice Act with new language also designed to allow executions to resume in North Carolina. Two versions of the North Carolina Racial Justice Act are H 472 and S 461 in the General Assembly...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).