Black Man’s Compromised Capital Trial Could Lead To North Carolina Death Row Inmates Being Resentenced
Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...
Racial bias tainted jury selection and death sentence for a Black man in North Carolina, judge says
A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who ...
North Carolina judge finds death sentences influenced by racial discrimination
On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, influencing the makeup of the jury along with the decision of the death ...
North Carolina judge finds racial bias in landmark death penalty case
The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...
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North Carolina Judge Finds Racial Bias in Death Penalty in Landmark Case
RALEIGH, N.C. – In a landmark case, a North Carolina judge ruled today that race played an impermissible role in jury selection for Hasson Bacote, a Black man who challenged his death sentence under ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
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Racial bias tainted jury selection and death sentence for a Black man in North Carolina, judge says
SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...
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Racial Bias Tainted Jury Selection and Death Sentence for a Black Man in North Carolina, Judge Says
Racial Bias Tainted Jury Selection and Death Sentence for a Black Man in North Carolina, Judge Says SMITHFIELD ... Hasson Bacote was among a group of 15 death row inmates whose sentences were ...
North Carolina judge finds death sentences influenced by racial discrimination: Court Documents
On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, ...