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Racial Justice Act Signed Into Law in North Carolina

By Steve Hall

"N.C. takes aim at bias in death penalty," is the title of Gary Wright's report in today's Charlotte Observer.  Here's an extended excerpt of this must read: Gov. Bev Perdue on Tuesday signed a bill that will allow murder suspects and death-row inmates to try to prove racial bias was behind prosecutors' decision to seek the death penalty or jurors' decision to impose it.North Carolina is the second state in the nation with a law designed to stop black defendants from being punished more severely than whites. Kentucky is the other state.?I have always been a supporter of the death penalty, but I have always believed it must be carried out fairly,? Perdue said. ?The Racial Justice Act ensures that when North Carolina hands down our state's harshest punishment to our most heinous criminals ? the decision is based on the facts and the law, not racial prejudice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).