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| North Carolina's death penalty debate |
| By latimes.com - Editorial |
| Published: 03/05/2012 |
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A 2009 state law allows death row inmates to reduce their sentences to life without parole if they can prove racial bias in sentencing or jury selection. The machinery of death is ripping itself to chunks in North Carolina. Would that this would happen in more places — like, say, California. Read More. |
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