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North Carolina clergy urging end to state's use of capital punishment

By Douglas A. Berman

Religion and sentencing are mixing again in North Carolina, as detailed in this local article headlined "Asheville pastors: SBI crime lab woes show need to eliminate death penalty." Here are the basics: North Carolina's criminal justice system is so fraught with cheating that lawmakers should eliminate the death penalty to keep innocent people from being executed, local pastors and an exonerated death row inmate said Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference in front of the Buncombe County Courthouse, participants said recent revelations about fraud in the State Bureau of Investigation crime lab only underscore an enduring problem. ?Our faith in the criminal justice system is shaken, but our resolve to make it better (is) not,? said the Rev...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).