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North Carolina Racial Justice Act Advances

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"Committee OKs bill meant to help defendants challenge death penalty," is the title of James Romoser's report in today's Winston-Salem Journal.A bill that would establish a new pro­cedure for defendants to challenge the use of the death penalty advanced yesterday in the General Assembly. The bill, known as the "North Carolina Racial Justice Act," was approved 7-5 by a committee in the state House. It now moves to a different committee before coming up for a vote in the full House. The Senate passed a previous version of the bill last month. Supporters of the bill say it would give defendants and death-row inmates clear legal channels through which they could argue that the application of capital punishment was racially motivated, either on the part of a prosecutor who sought the death penalty or on the part of a jury that imposed the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).