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Passage of Racial Justice Act ?A Great Spiritual Victory? Say Supporters

By "Persian Cowboy"

With the passage of the North Carolina Racial Justice Act by the NC Senate yesterday by a vote of 25-18 the State of North Carolina stepped up to lead the South away from the worst of its racist past. The bill allows for court reviews over capital defendants? claims that racial bias influenced their cases. Gov. Bev Perdue is expected to sign the bill into law soon.?This is a great spiritual victory for North Carolina, the South, and our whole country,? said Stephen Dear, executive director of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty. ?We have passed through the horrors of Jim Crow, through the racial politics of Jesse Helms, and now we have come to acknowledge that racial bias infects our courts over one of the greatest powers citizens give to government, the power to take human life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).