The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...
Judge ruled prosecutors unlawfully dismissed Black jurors in Hasson Bacote's death penalty case and used racist language like ...
The GOP candidate for state Supreme Court refuses to accept that “North Carolinians simply did not choose him" ...
Bacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...
A Wake County Superior Court judge has ruled against Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who is trying to invalidate more ...
A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who was sentenced to death in 2009.
Attorneys for the state said they planned to appeal the superior court judge’s ruling to the NC Supreme Court.
This decision follows a lawsuit filed by the largest U.S. government workers' union and an association of foreign service ...