The National NAACP wants the legislature to pass a bill that would let people facing the death penalty argue that race was a significant factor in prosecutors' decision to seek the death penalty or in juries' voting to impose it.
The bill, known as the Racial Justice Act, is being pushed by the state NAACP and other groups, Lynn Bonner reports.
The bill passed the Senate with a provision the death-penalty opponents don't want, one that aims to restart executions after a de facto moratorium of more than two years.
The National NAACP set up an easy way for supporters to send e-mail messages to House Speaker Joe Hackney and Senate leader Marc Basnight asking them to get the bill passed without the Senate addition.
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