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Gov. Perdue Vetoes Rewrite of Racial Justice Act

Source: Raleigh News & Observer | North Carolina | June 29, 2012

Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the bill that would have undermined the Racial Justice Act, the 2009 law that allows death-row inmates to try to convert their sentences to life in prison without parole by using statistical proof of racial bias in their trials.

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