A state House committee today removed a provision of the Racial Justice Act that would restart the execution process in North Carolina.
The bill would allow defendants to challenge death penalty sentences on grounds of racial bias. Last month, the state Senate added a provision that would restart lethal injections, which have been on hold for various legal reasons.
The provision was taken out of the House committee's substitute version of the bill, reports Kevin Kiley.
Republican committee members said without the provision the bill likely would not make it out of committee or receive majority support in the full House.
The committee will return to the bill in two weeks.
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Re: Execution provision yanked from bill
I don't know the politics of all of this, but this is not that difficult. If a person has been sitting on death row for decades and have exhausted all appeals, we need to get these wimpy representatives to quit being a roadblock to enforcing punishment. My guess was these liberal representatives are going to keep finding more excuses to keep these murderers alive, and apparently this is proving to be true. They care more about the murderers than they do the victims...