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119 File Claims Under North Carolina Racial Justice Act

By Steve Hall

There is extensive press in North Carolina.  This post will link to news articles; the next, commentary.  Yesterday was the deadline to file a claim under the state RJA law. "119 on death row allege bias," is the title of Anne Blythe's report in the News & Observer. North Carolina's death row could be much smaller if all the inmates claiming that racial bias played a part in their trials and death sentences are successful in challenges filed over the past week. Tuesday was the deadline for death row inmates to seek to have their death sentences converted to life without parole under the fledgling Racial Justice Act, and by late afternoon, the state Attorney General's Office had received notice that 119 of the 159 death row inmates were seeking such relief...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 11, 2010 (boomark / email).