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Racial Justice Act Back on Senate Agenda

By Steve Hall

SB 461 is back on the North Carolina Senate calendar today.  The body convenes at 3:00 pm, and it will be webcast."Senate could allow bias test in death sentences," is the AP report via the News & Observer of Raleigh.The North Carolina Senate may decide whether attorneys could offer a statistical argument showing that racial prejudice put a killer on death row.The Senate has scheduled a vote on Tuesday for a revamped version of what backers are calling the Racial Justice Act. The measure would allow judges to consider whether statistical data show race was behind the decision of prosecutors to seek, or jurors to impose, the death penalty. A judge who agrees could limit a sentence to life in prison without parole."NAACP seeks Rand's backing for N...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).