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The Fayetteville Observer
April 2, 2018
Walters, Augustine, Golphin and a fourth death row inmate, Marcus Reymond Robinson, were removed from death row in 2012 under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act. The law, which has since been repealed by the General Assembly, gave death row inmates a chance to commute their sentences to lifeÃÂ ...
The Nation.
March 22, 2018
In dozens of states, Democratic leaders are vying to bring about “the next Virginia,” in the words of North Carolina Representative Graig Meyer, who is part of a .... and lost one governorship, in North Carolina, where Pat McCrory defeated Walter Dalton and promptly repealed the state's Racial Justice Act.18.
Athens NEWS
March 18, 2018
Correction of this injustice has been frustratingly difficult, as demonstrated in North Carolina. In 2009, that state adopted the Racial Justice Act, landmark legislation that allowed death-row prisoners to challenge their sentences on the basis of statistical evidence of racial discrimination, but then repealed theÃÂ ...
Charlotte Observer
March 15, 2018
Our legislature later repealed the Racial Justice Act, which allowed a different judge to overturn Marcus's resentencing. The repeal ... that such bias existed. Our Supreme Court, which is bound to fairness, now has a duty to all North Carolina citizens to make sure that this evidence sees the light of day.
News & Observer
March 12, 2018
The North Carolina Supreme Court this month took the admirable step of granting review of three important cases that raise issues under the Racial Justice Act, or RJA. I sponsored this path-breaking piece of legislation enacted in 2009. The RJA was only the second law of its kind in the nation and it wasÃÂ ...
Charlotte Post
March 5, 2018
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear cases that will decide whether racial bias is enough to move felons from death row. ... were the first inmates to prove under the North Carolina Racial Justice Act that racial discrimination led to their death sentences, which were reduced to life without parole.
News & Observer
March 2, 2018
But Racial Justice Act advocates have countered that a Michigan State University study of 173 capital trials over a 20-year period in North Carolina shows otherwise. The study found that in North Carolina, between 1990 and 2010, qualified black jurors were more than twice as likely as whites to beÃÂ ...
Mother Jones
June 5, 2017
The reason their cases were reviewed at all was because of a 2009 North Carolina law known as the Racial Justice Act, which allowed judges to reduce death sentences to life in prison without parole when defendants were able to prove racial bias in their charge, jury selection, or sentence. “The RacialÃÂ ...
News & Observer
December 18, 2015
The state Supreme Court vacated rulings in four historic Racial Justice Act cases, saying the judge erred when he did not give prosecutors more time to respond to a statistical study about race in the North Carolina courts. The decision overturns Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks'ÃÂ ...
Fortune
June 20, 2013
North Carolina's governor says he agreed to repeal a law that allowed inmates to challenge their death sentences on racial grounds because it effectively banned capital punishment in the state. North Carolina legislators barred death sentences "sought or obtained on the basis of race" in 2009, when bothÃÂ ...
New York Times
June 5, 2013
In the weeks before the State House of Representatives took up the Racial Justice Act, most lawmakers acknowledged it was headed for repeal. Still, the legislative debate stretched over two days and was noteworthy for both its emotion and its ideology. Those who voted to rescind it recited the names ofÃÂ ...
WBTW
December 31, 1999
TRASH BIN BODY, from WINSTON-SALEM - Authorities say they have charged three men with murder and kidnapping in the beating of a man found dead inside a trash bin in North Carolina. SENT: 130 words. - RACIAL JUSTICE ACT, from RALEIGH - Three convicted murderers once temporarily removedÃÂ ...
Asheboro Courier Tribune
January 8, 2018
Capital punishment is on the law books in North Carolina and Berger says there are currently 143 inmates on death row. ... The other legal challenges stem from the Racial Justice Act, a short-lived law that allowed inmates to use local and statewide statistics in claims that racial bias played a role in theirÃÂ ...
News & Observer
January 6, 2018
Capital punishment is on the law books in North Carolina and Berger says there are currently 143 inmates on death row. ... “Stein and then-Attorney General Cooper have made numerous pleadings on the state's behalf in these cases opposing the claims” regarding both the Racial Justice Act and the lethalÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
January 3, 2018
Capital punishment is on the law books in North Carolina and Berger says there are currently 143 inmates on death row. ... The other legal challenges stem from the Racial Justice Act, a short-lived law that allowed inmates to use local and statewide statistics in claims that racial bias played a role in theirÃÂ ...
News & Observer
December 22, 2017
Stein said that African-Americans are unfairly excluded from serving on capital juries in Wake County. She pointed to a Michigan State University study that was conducted on behalf of the state's Racial Justice Act. It showed that the odds of qualified black jurors in North Carolina being struck by prosecutorsÃÂ ...
Mother Jones
June 5, 2017
The reason their cases were reviewed at all was because of a 2009 North Carolina law known as the Racial Justice Act, which allowed judges to reduce death sentences to life in prison without parole when defendants were able to prove racial bias in their charge, jury selection, or sentence. “The RacialÃÂ ...
Fayetteville Observer
May 30, 2017
Two former judges from the North Carolina Court of Appeals and other lawyers filed briefs on Tuesday to bolster the request. The four inmates previously used the now-repealed North Carolina Racial Justice Act to get off death row in 2012. The Racial Justice Act said that if a death row inmate can prove toÃÂ ...
News & Observer
January 25, 2017
But Racial Justice Act advocates have countered that a Michigan State University study of 173 capital trials over a 20-year period in North Carolina shows otherwise. The study found that in North Carolina, between 1990 and 2010, qualified black jurors were more than twice as likely as whites to beÃÂ ...
News & Observer
December 18, 2015
The state Supreme Court vacated rulings in four historic Racial Justice Act cases, saying the judge erred when he did not give prosecutors more time to respond to a statistical study about race in the North Carolina courts. The decision overturns Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks'ÃÂ ...
The New Republic
May 9, 2014
Last month, the North Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments about whether it should reinstate death sentences for four inmates whose punishments were previously commuted. Under the state's Racial Justice Act of 2009, the inmates awaiting execution had successfully challenged their sentences byÃÂ ...
Fortune
June 20, 2013
North Carolina's governor says he agreed to repeal a law that allowed inmates to challenge their death sentences on racial grounds because it effectively banned capital punishment in the state. North Carolina legislators barred death sentences "sought or obtained on the basis of race" in 2009, when bothÃÂ ...
News & Observer
June 29, 2017
Or what the New York Times calls North Carolina's “pioneering work in ... Early judicial determinations under the Racial Justice Act found a ...
Mother Jones
June 5, 2017
The reason their cases were reviewed at all was because of a 2009 North Carolina law known as the Racial Justice Act, which allowed judges ...
Fayetteville Observer
May 30, 2017
The four inmates previously used the now-repealed North Carolina Racial Justice Act to get off death row in 2012. The Racial Justice Act said ...
WUNC
May 17, 2017
He was also a vocal lobbyist for the Racial Justice Act, a North Carolina law in effect from 2009-2013 that addressed issues of racial bias in the ...
News & Observer
January 25, 2017
They were the first four inmates on North Carolina's death row to successfully persuade a Cumberland County judge through the use of ...
News & Observer
June 9, 2016
The chief resident Superior Court judge in Cumberland County agreed on Thursday to let another judge preside over hearing on four Racial ...
News & Observer
December 18, 2015
Under the short-lived Racial Justice Act, Weeks' finding meant that the ... A Michigan State University study of capital cases in North Carolina ...
The New Republic
May 9, 2014
Last month, the North Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments about ... Under the state's Racial Justice Act of 2009, the inmates awaiting ...
WRAL.com
April 11, 2014
Cases involving Racial Justice Act claims are complicated by the fact ... North Carolina has not executed a prisoner on its death row since Aug.
Fortune
June 20, 2013
North Carolina's governor says he agreed to repeal a law that allowed inmates to challenge their death sentences on racial grounds because it ...
New York Times
June 5, 2013
In the weeks before the State House of Representatives took up the Racial Justice Act, most lawmakers acknowledged it was headed for repeal ...
Durham Herald Sun
July 14, 2017
North Carolina's 2011 maps have been the focus of three lawsuits that led to ... The quick repeal of the Racial Justice Act, which was adopted inÃÂ ...
Mother Jones
June 5, 2017
The reason their cases were reviewed at all was because of a 2009 North Carolina law known as the Racial Justice Act, which allowed judgesÃÂ ...
Fayetteville Observer
May 30, 2017
The four inmates previously used the now-repealed North Carolina Racial Justice Act to get off death row in 2012. The Racial Justice Act saidÃÂ ...
WUNC
May 17, 2017
He was also a vocal lobbyist for the Racial Justice Act, a North Carolina law in effect from 2009-2013 that addressed issues of racial bias in theÃÂ ...
News & Observer
January 25, 2017
They were the first four inmates on North Carolina's death row to successfully persuade a Cumberland County judge through the use ofÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
December 20, 2016
North Carolina's stark partisan divide has spurred political hardball from .... have also repealed the state's Racial Justice Act, passed in 2009,ÃÂ ...
News & Observer
December 18, 2015
Under the short-lived Racial Justice Act, Weeks' finding meant that the ... A Michigan State University study of capital cases in North CarolinaÃÂ ...
The New Republic
May 9, 2014
Last month, the North Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments about ... Under the state's Racial Justice Act of 2009, the inmates awaitingÃÂ ...
Fortune
June 20, 2013
North Carolina's governor says he agreed to repeal a law that allowed inmates to challenge their death sentences on racial grounds because itÃÂ ...
New York Times
June 5, 2013
In the weeks before the State House of Representatives took up the Racial Justice Act, most lawmakers acknowledged it was headed for repealÃÂ ...
Fayetteville Observer
February 25, 2017
William Barber jumps up on the ledge around the pool to tell observers not to boo the local authorities efforts to keep the crowd safe during the Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina Legislative Building in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina ...
The Nation.
February 13, 2017
Holliman, along with her friend and neighbor Heidi Hannapel, joined an estimated 80,000 others and nearly 200 groups at the 11th annual Forward Together Moral March, led by North Carolina NAACP president Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II. And despite ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
February 10, 2017
ASHEVILLE - A 39-year-old man who was sentenced to death in the 1996 murders of his aunt and her daughter was granted on Friday his bid to be removed from the state's death row roster, following an agreement by his defense attorneys and theÃÂ ...
Greensboro News & Record
December 31, 2016
Engel said North Carolina has had an unofficial moratorium on executions because of pending litigation in state and federal courts on lethal injection.
The Progressive Pulse
December 26, 2016
The hard work of organizing as well as continuing demographic changes make it more likely North Carolina will be known as a progressive (though imperfect) southern state rather than the state that repealed the Racial Justice Act and introduced HB2.
Winston-Salem Journal
December 26, 2016
Engel said North Carolina has had an unofficial moratorium on executions because of pending litigation in state and federal courts on lethal injection.
New Republic
December 21, 2016
The hard work of organizing as well as continuing demographic changes make it more likely North Carolina will be known as a progressive (though imperfect) southern state rather than the state that repealed the Racial Justice Act and introduced HB2.
