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North Carolina Racial Justice Act Continues to Advance

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"Bill on death-penalty disparities advances," is James Romoser's report in today's Winston-Salem Journal.  Here's an extended excerpt:A bill aimed at reducing racial disparities in the imposition of the death penalty advanced another step in the N.C. General Assembly yesterday. Supporters of the bill, which is known as the "North Carolina Racial Justice Act," say that it would combat racial bias by giving defendants and death-row inmates clear legal procedures to argue that race played a significant role in decisions to impose the death penalty. But the bill is controversial because of the way it would allow defendants and inmates to use statistics to try to show racial bias. The bill would allow them to use data from other death-penalty trials within the same county, prosecutorial district, judicial division or the state at large...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).