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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving North Carolina Newsletter for Saturday March 09, 2024 ( 1 items )  

ACLU: Historic Hearing Challenging Racial Bias in North Carolina's Death Penalty Concludes With Overwhelming Evidence of Discrimination in Capital Cases
SMITHFIELD, North Carolina, March 9 -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: A historic Racial Justice Act (https://www.aclu.org/news/capital-punishment/challenging-the-racist-death-penalty-in-north-carolina) hearing came to a close Friday after two weeks of testimony that illustrated the discrimination inherent in North Caro  more