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Impt case being argued in NC on Mon: In 2009 the Dem-controlled NC Legislature passed the #RacialJusticeAct, allowing death row inmates to challenge sentences tainted by racial discrimination. In 2013 the new NC Legislature repealed the #RacialJusticeAct. nytimes.com/2019/08/23/opi…
This is the same legislature, newly controlled by Republicans, that passed an omnibus voter suppression bill later struck down by the federal courts as unconstitutionally created to discriminate against Black voters.
Now Black men who were sentenced to death row before the RJA was repealed, despite clear evidence of racial bias in their sentencing are fighting for the right to present that evidence in court. On Monday, a dream team of death penalty attys will argue in the NC Supreme Court.
