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North Carolina Governor to Sign RJA Today

By Steve Hall

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"Purdue expected to sign racial justice bill today," is the AP report via the Winston-Salem Journal.North Carolina will become only the second state in the country that allows defendants to try to prove race was a significant factor in a death sentence or in a prosecutor seeking the death penalty.Gov. Beverly Perdue is scheduled to sign the Racial Justice Act into law Tuesday morning.The General Assembly passed the law last week. Kentucky is the only other state that allows statistical evidence to establish racial bias by prosecutors seeking or jurors rendering the death penalty.The bill allows judges to consider whether statistical data show race was a key factor in putting a defendant on trial for his life or receiving a death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).

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