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"119 N.C. death row inmates allege racial bias"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this local piece from North Carolina providing the latest litigation update on the interesting death penalty story developing in the Tar Heel state.  Here are the basics: Dozens of inmates around North Carolina ? both black and white ? are challenging their death sentences under a new law that allows them to argue racial bias. The office of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said some 119 inmates have filed a claim under the Racial Justice Act ahead of Tuesday?s deadline. A spokeswoman for Cooper said there were more claims expected among the 159 North Carolina convicts on death row. Under the terms of the Racial Justice Act in 2009, convicts can use statistical evidence to argue bias in their sentencing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).