Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...

Attorneys for the state, meanwhile, informed Sermons that they planned to appeal his ruling to the North Carolina ... a Durham-based law firm that represents people on death row, and was a part ...

As direct legacies of this misguided law, two-thirds of North Carolina’s death row today is comprised of persons sentenced to death before 2002, and North Carolina’s death row remains the ...

The ruling comes after former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s grant of clemency to 15 people on death row, including Bacote ... “The promise for the law was to allow for a reckoning ...

Prisoners on the North Carolina ... currently on death row have pending claims under the Racial Justice Act, according to the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, a Durham-based law firm that ...

Last week, President Trump directed the U.S. attorney general to seek the death penalty for federal capital crimes “regardless of other factors” when the case involves the killing of a law ...

Consistent with prior case law, he ruled ... racism infects the death penalty. We are hopeful that future decisions will result in relief under the RJA for other North Carolinians currently on death ...