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Perdue to Sign Racial Justice Act |
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 |
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RALEIGH, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue will sign a bill into law Tuesday that prohibits race to determine whether someone faces the death penalty. |
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N.C. Death Penalty Appeal on Verge of Becoming Law |
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Friday, 07 August 2009 |
Racial Justice Act would allow petitions based on ethnicity
by Herbert L. White
North Carolina is on the verge of allowing challenges to the death penalty based on race.
The state Senate passed the N.C. Racial Justice Act by a 25-18 margin Thursday and Gov. Bev Perdue is expected to sign the bill into law. The House passed the bill last month. |
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NC Racial Justice Act Passes |
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 |
A Great Spiritual Victory
From a press release by People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, August 6, 2009:
With the passage of the NC Racial Justice Act by the NC Senate yesterday by a vote of 25-18 the State of North Carolina stepped up to lead the South away from the worst of its racist past. The bill allows for court reviews over capital defendants’ claims that racial bias influenced their cases. Gov. Bev Perdue is expected to sign the bill into law soon. |
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Baldus, Woodworth: False Attacks on the Proposed N.C. Racial Justice Act |
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 |
By David C. Baldus and George Woodworth : Guest columnists
The Herald-Sun
The various attacks on the proposed North Carolina Racial Justice Act, a bill that would allow capital defendants to present claims of racial bias to the court, are, at best, based on a lack of understanding, and at worst, emotional and misleading arguments used in an effort to obscure the issues. |
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Race as a Death Penalty Factor (NC) |
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 |
BY MATTHEW ROBINSON
BOONE - Several arguments are being made against the North Carolina Racial Justice Act, which is up for a state Senate vote. They include these: a law cannot assure racial justice; patterns of racial disparities are not useful for demonstrating evidence of racial discrimination in particular cases; other plausible explanations for racial disparities exist besides bias on the part of prosecutors, judges and juries; and there are other serious problems with the death penalty that this bill does not address. |
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Monday, 27 July 2009 |
Winston-Salem Journal Editorial Staff
The problems with the death penalty in this state have been underscored time and time again, including through three high-profile cases from other parts of North Carolina in which inmates who had been on death row were freed from prison. The penalty has been on an unofficial moratorium since 2006 as officials try to resolve questions regarding whether doctors should participate in executions. But with problems from past cases continuing to mount, a bill that addresses racial bias in death-penalty cases is timely. |
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