Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

North Carolina: Murders Down, Death Sentences Down

By Steve Hall

"On the decline: murders and death sentences," is the title of an OpEd by Frank R. Baumgartner.  He's a professor of political science at UNC-Chapel Hill.  It's a must-read: Recently in several parts of North Carolina potential voters received fliers produced by the N.C. Republican Executive Committee charging that Democratic votes for the Racial Justice Act could lead to the immediate parole of death row inmates, allowing them to move into "your neighborhood," thanks to "ultra-liberal" members of the legislature such as Rep. Hugh Holliman.In fact, the only "remedy" a death row inmate would be eligible for if a state court did indeed find racial bias affected the outcome of his case would be to see his death sentence changed to life without the possibility of parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).