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NC judge's ruling opens door for death row prisoners to challenge cases due to racial bias
A legal decision handed down in Johnston County could have big impacts for more than 100 prisoners currently on death row in North Carolina. A judge ruled on Friday that race played a role in the case ...
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 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 ...
Black Man's Compromised Capital Trial Could Lead To North Carolina Death Row Inmates Being Resentenced
North Carolina death row inmates may be eligible for resentencing if it is determined that a Black defendant's trial was ...
The New Yorker2d
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 ...
The New Yorker2d
The Ladies on Death Row
From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...
The Charlotte Post4h
A reckoning for race bias in NC death penalty cases
Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermon found race played a major role in the prosecution and sentencing of Hasson Bacote to the death penalty in 2009. Gov. Roy Cooper granted Bacote clemency on Dec. 31, ...
KSAT2d
San Antonio church provided spiritual comfort for first woman on death row in Texas
Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...
Tulsa World6d
OKC woman on death row says prosecutors sex shamed her; U.S. Supreme Court orders review
OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a ...
Texas Standard13h
A sisterhood of nuns is quietly emerging on Texas death row
Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...
Dallas Morning News2d
What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
The women are housed at the O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville. Executions are carried out in Huntsville, about a three-hour drive from Dallas. As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel6d
Helene death toll rises to 105 in North Carolina
The number of fatalities related to Tropical Storm Helene has risen to 105, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Jan. 29. The additional death occurred in Buncombe ...