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Continued Coverage From North Carolina

By Steve Hall

Let's begin with two news items, before turning to commentary on the SBI lab scandal and what it means for capital punishment in North Carolina.The AP brief is, "Moratorium supported for cases tainted by SBI crime lab," via the Charlotte Observer.The president of a district attorneys' group in North Carolina says he supports a moratorium on the execution of any death-row prisoners whose cases include evidence from the State Bureau of Investigations crime lab.The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that Seth Edwards says he still has faith in the state's judicial system but he knows others might have doubts after a scathing review of the state-run crime lab.The Charlotte Observer also has, "Call for a halt rises," written by Michael Hewlett...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).