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North Carolina Passes Racial Justice Act

By Steve Hall

Yesterday, the North Carolina Senate voted to adopt the House version of SB 461.  The measure now goes to the governor."Racial Justice Act passes, now goes to Perdue," is the title of James Romoser's report in today's Winston-Salem Journal.The General Assembly has approved a landmark bill that will allow death-row inmates to challenge the death penalty by arguing that there is systemic racial bias in the way that capital punishment has been applied. Under the bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Bev Perdue, an inmate will be able to present statistical evidence showing racial disparities in how the death penalty has been used. If a judge finds the evidence convincing, the judge can overturn that inmate's death sentence and convert it to a sentence of life in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).