NC's Death Penalty Plan Walks a Fine Line
With a state House vote on a death-penalty study coming soon, activists on both sides of the issue like their chances of winning.Under a revised proposal that passed a House committee last week, a blanket moratorium on all executions is in the ditch.
In its place, individual inmates up for execution during the three-year study of the fairness of the application of North Carolina's death penalty could ask judges to postpone their lethal injections individually. To win a temporary reprieve, they would have to offer credible evidence of specific problems in their cases, such as racial bias or cheating prosecutors.
Read the full article from The News & Observer.
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