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More on the North Carolina Racial Justice Act Legislation

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Today's Duke Chronicle carries the report, "McKissick, state legislators debate racial justice act," written by Julius Jones.The North Carolina Racial Justice Act may soon allow death row inmates who believe their sentences were motivated by race to challenge their fate in court. The N.C. House Ways and Means Committee voted to approve the legislation June 9, bringing the bill one step closer to a vote on the House floor. The N.C. Senate passed the act May 14. If the bill becomes law, it will allow inmates-who can prove that race was a factor in the jury's sentencing or the prosecutor's decision to seek the death penalty-to have their sentence commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In an unexpected turn of events, the N...continue to full post

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