North Carolina's high court hears case on race and death penalty
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s highest court began weighing a claim Monday by six inmates on death row who say they are there because of racial discrimination in jury selection — and who argue they are still entitled to protections under a law that was taken off the books.The state Supreme Court began hearing arguments in the cases of four inmates from Cumberland County homicides who briefly were resentenced to life without parole after legislators approved the Racial […]
