A suspect was charged by the Duplin County Sheriff’s Office in connection to an overdose death earlier this year. Kayla Karr ...

The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — One of the defendants apart of the group known as the “Cabo Six” denies allegations made in the Shanquella Robinson wrongful death lawsuit, according to a ...

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 ...

During Thursday’s general assembly session, three state senators introduced SB 94 with a short, direct title: Repeal Death Penalty. Senators Natalie S. Murdock ...

“This decision is a damning indictment of the death penalty and should serve as a call for every North Carolina death sentence ... “The promise for the law was to allow for a reckoning and ...

Racial Bias Tainted Jury Selection and Death Sentence for a Black Man in North Carolina, Judge Says SMITHFIELD ... reason for their death sentence. The law was repealed in 2013, but the state ...

Meanwhile, Detweiler’s mother, Julia, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Capurro ... California’s Senate Bill 2, signed into law in 2021, created a process to strip police officers ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - For the first time, a physician at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit filed against our region ... Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the North Carolina Department of ...

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 ...

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 ... The law was repealed in 2013 ...