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Old Jun 20th, 2012, 12:20 PM   #1
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Later this week, the legislature in North Carolina could approve a major overhaul to the state's Racial Justice Act, a unique law passed in 2009 that allows death-row inmates in the Tarheel State to challenge the terms of their confinements on grounds that race was a "significant factor" during the sentencing process.

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