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North Carolina Legislation

By Steve Hall

"Illness on Trial," is the title of a Sunday editorial in Raleigh's News & Observer.  With capital punishment unofficially on hold in North Carolina - there hasn't been an execution since 2006 - the death penalty isn't much in the news these days, or near the top of the General Assembly's agenda. Yet there's a common sense reform pending in the legislature that could bring more justice, and quite likely less cost, to certain murder trials in our state.That would be to exempt people with a severe mental disability from the death penalty.Don't we already do that? Not really. The U.S. Supreme Court, rightly, has acted in recent years to spare juveniles and people with mental retardation from the death penalty, no matter their crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).