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NORTH CAROLINA: Many factors point to injustice of the death penalty in NC

The North Carolina Racial Justice Act was a step in the right direction towards redressing the unfairness in our system of capital punishment. It is time we end all-white juries and disparate sentencing of people of color relative to their white counterparts. More than half of North Carolina's 161 death row inmates are African-American.As the daughter of murder victims and a member of Murder Victims' Family Members for Reconciliation (www.mvfr.org), I know the statistics regarding racial bias in the system: the odds are three and a half times greater that a person will be sentenced to death if the victim is white than if the victim is African-American.We must make absolutely certain we don't execute innocent people. Human error, corruption, circumstantial evidence, ineffective attorneys and racial discrimination pose high risks to justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on December 12, 2009 (boomark / email).