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First Racial Justice Act claim since landmark 2020 ruling is heard in state court


Judge Wayland J. Sermons, Jr. heard Hasson Bacote’s Racial Justice Act claim in Wake County Superior Court on May 20, 2021.
The first case re-evaluating the role of racial bias in the death penalty began last week in Wake County, the result of a landmark 2020 state Supreme Court decision.
Hasson Bacote was convicted of murdering Anthony Surles, an 18-year-old high schooler in Johnston County in 2007, WRAL reported. A jury sentenced Bacote to death in 2009.
That same year, the General Assembly passed the Racial Justice Act, which then-Gov. Bev Perdue signed into law. The RJA allowed individuals on death row to seek sentences of life without parole if they could prove racial bias or discrimination was a significant factor in the decision to seek or impose the death penalty in their case. ....

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Emotional, psychological toll of pandemic just now beginning to be felt


Emotional, psychological toll of pandemic just now beginning to be felt
A pregnant woman in Schwenksville, Pa., receives a vaccine for the coronavirus Feb. 11, 2021. (CNS photo/Hannah Beier, Reuters)
By Mark Pattison • Catholic News Service • Posted February 26, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) The psychological and emotional trauma of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is only now beginning to be felt, and is bound to keep affecting American workers for some time to come.
“The other virus that we’re dealing with is fear,” said Jesuit Father Thomas Florek, part of the Hispanic-Latino formation development team at the University of Detroit Mercy, during a Feb. 24 webinar sponsored by the Catholic Labor Network, “Ministering to Workers in the Time of COVID.” ....

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Why It's So Significant that Virginia Looks Set To Abolish the Death Penalty


Why It s So Significant that Virginia Looks Set To Abolish the Death Penalty
Time
2/9/2021
Madeleine Carlisle
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam addresses a joint session of the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond, Va., on Jan. 8, 2020.
Virginia’s use of the death penalty dates back over 400 years to 1608, when Jamestown settlers carried out the first recorded execution in the then-European colonies. In the centuries since, amid periods of slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow segregation, Virginia has executed hundreds of people; since 1976, Virginia has executed 113 people, a higher percentage of death row inmates than any other U.S. state, and the highest number of state executions second only to Texas. ....

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