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The Racial Justice Act in North Carolina

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"Group urges legislators to pass race bill," is the title of a news article in today's Winston-Salem Journal written by Michael Hewlett.A group of pastors urged state legislators to pass a bill that would allow defendants to challenge the application of the death penalty by citing statistical racial disparities in the overall use of capital punishment. The bill, which was introduced by state Reps. Larry Womble and Earline Parmon of Forsyth County, is needed to provide a check on a criminal-justice system in which racial bias plays a major role in determining who ends up on death row and who doesn't, said the Rev. Carlton Eversley, the president of the Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity. And the proof of that racial bias, Eversley said, can be seen clearly in the case of Darryl Hunt, a black man who spent 19 years in prison for killing and raping Deborah Sykes, a white copy editor at the now-defunct Winston-Salem Sentinel...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).