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Human Evidence of the Need for Justice

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That's the title of an OpEd by Chris Fitzsimon, director of NC Policy Watch, in the Carrboro (NC) Citizen.  LINK It?s too bad that every single member of the General Assembly who stands in front of television cameras clamoring for the state to resume executions wasn?t in the press room at the Legislative Building Tuesday afternoon. Three men recently freed from North Carolina?s death row after spending a combined 36 years awaiting their executions for crimes they did not commit appeared with Darryl Hunt, who spent 19 years behind bars until he was finally declared innocent and freed from his life sentence just a few years ago. The four unjustly incarcerated men have something else in common too. They are all African-American males and race played a role in the miscarriages of justice that robbed each of them of a significant portion of their lives...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).