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As Executions Resume, So Do Questions of Fairness

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That's the title of an article in Wednesday's New York Times reported by Shaila Dewan from North Carolina.  LINKThe release of the third death row inmate in six months in North Carolina last week is raising fresh questions about whether states are supplying capital-murder defendants with adequate counsel, even as an execution on Tuesday night in Georgia ended a seven-month national suspension. In all three cases, North Carolina appeals courts found that evidence that would have favored the defendants was withheld from defense lawyers by prosecutors or investigators. In two of the cases, including that of Levon Jones, who was released on Friday after 14 years on death row, the courts said the defendants? lawyers had failed to mount an adequate defense...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).