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North Carolina Legislature Takes a Stand for Justice

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Yesterday, North Carolina's General Assembly approved making the state the second in the country, following Kentucky, to allow attorneys to use statistical data to demonstrate how racial bias factors into the decision of prosecutors to seek or jurors to impose the death penalty.The Senate voted 25-18 for a measure that the NAACP and other advocates said was needed in a state that has released three black men from death row. Gov. Beverly Perdue is expected to sign the legislation.People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, in partnership with other advocates, worked tirelessly to get this bill passed. Stephen Dear, executive director of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty stated:This is a great spiritual victory for North Carolina, the South, and our whole country...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).