North Carolina Republicans undo Racial Justice Act for death row inmates | The Raw Story: North Carolina Republicans have sent a bill to Gov. Bev Perdue (D) that effectively voids a law that allowed death row inmates to have their punishment reduced to life in prison if statistics showed that they were sentenced to die because of racism.
The governor vetoed a similar bill last year that would completely voided the Racial Justice Act, but this time Republicans were joined by five conservative Democrats, giving them a veto-proof majority.
“What they’ve done is very seriously gutted the Racial Justice Act,” Rep. Mickey Michaux (D) told WTVD.
