Will North Carolina's Supreme Court Allow Racism to Remain a Persistent Factor in its Death Penalty?
- Dettagli
- Categoria: Death Penalty News
- Pubblicato: 25 Agosto 2019
In 2009, North Carolina passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA), which allowed defendants to strike the death penalty from their cases if they could show that racial discrimination was a factor in their prosecution. The law came as a response to a series of exonerations of Black people who were falsely convicted of crimes they did not commit by