North Carolina Invalidates Landmark Racial Justice Act

[Blue_Tires]

Just two months after North Carolina death row inmate Marcus Robinson made history by having his racially biased death sentence commuted to life in prison, the North Carolina state legislature has passed a bill that would make it virtually impossible for other death row inmates to use racial bias as a justification for doing the same. A veto of “Amend Death Penalty Procedures” bill is likely, but lawmakers appear to have enough votes to override it. If enacted, ADPP will undermine or terminate the nearly 159 racial bias claims that have been filed by North Carolina’s death row inmates since 2009.

“This action is necessary to end the moratorium on the death penalty. The death penalty acts as a deterrent only if it is used. The death penalty will obviously not deter if the state only pretends to have a death penalty and never carries out the sentence,” said House Majority Leader Paul “Skip” Stam, the bill’s most outspoken supporter (and the architect of the infamous Amendment 1) said in a June statement.

Here is how the “Amend Death Penalty Procedures” bill would change the Racial Justice Act (RJA). Race of the victim: RJA allowed for the introduction of evidence that death sentences were more frequently sought or imposed when people of one race were the victims. The ADPP would reject the race of the victim as evidence.

The use of statistics: ...

Read more: http://www.dominionofnewyork.com/2012/06/21/north-carolina-invalidates-landmark-racial-justice-act/#.T-OgjitYvDE

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1014&pid=149267

[atreides1]

1. The Whites....

....will do anything to go on with their "Death to Darkie" agenda, won't they?

And for those who will find this description offensive, what the fuck else would you call it?

[rbixby]

2. I think that by this point they should know

that the death penalty isn't a deterrent, its a retribution.

[nofurylike]

3. they only want the dp to be able to exterminate black men. so a law

like that made having a death penalty useless.

of course they also got to kill an occasional black woman, latino or latina, asian, native american ... brown person ....

i despise those klan slime.

we were so amazed that north carolina ever even passed that bill ....

no wonder, ah?

what skip stam slime actually said by that:
w- wh- why ... the death penalty won't even WORK if the state makes laws to keep it from being pure GENOCIDE!!!!!

what the fuck else anyone think it is FOR?!!!