A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias ...
A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who ...
Bacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...
Attorneys for the state said they planned to appeal the superior court judge’s ruling to the NC Supreme Court.
Judge ruled prosecutors unlawfully dismissed Black jurors in Hasson Bacote's death penalty case and used racist language like ...
The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...
North Carolina is still feeling the adverse impact of the mandatory death penalty prosecution law, despite its repeal. | ...
Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...
After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...
NFL coach Sean Payton says he can't think of a major American sporting venue that has aged as well as the nearly 50-year-old Superdome.
On May 24, 2002, Bowman, of Branchville, was convicted of murder and third-degree arson in the death of Kandee Martin ... Sigmon planned to take Barbare to North Carolina, according to the ...