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NC: Death Row Prisoners File Racial Justice Act Claims

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Death Row Prisoners File Racial Justice Act Claims Carol Turowski Co-Director of the Innocence and Justice Clinic, Wake Forest University School of Law Posted: August 9, 2010 03:33 PM The release last week of a study conducted by two law professors at Michigan State University College of Law has reignited the debate over the question of what role race plays in North Carolina when defendants are facing a death sentence. After examining 5,800 cases in North Carolina that were eligible for the death penalty from 1990 through 2009, the study concluded that a defendant in North Carolina is 2.6 times more likely to be sentenced to death if at least one of the victims is white. Moreover, the study found that more than 40 percent of defendants on North Carolina's death row were sentenced to death by a jury that was either all-white or included only one person of color...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).