Outgoing President Joe Biden has commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates, including Anthony Battle, convicted of stabbing his wife to death in her barracks at Camp Lejeune. Meantime, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is under pressure from activists to commute all state death penalty sentences as he prepares to leave office.
“I just think it’s B.S,” Al Lowry said of ads portraying Beasley as pro law enforcement. “She’s for the criminals and not for the law officers, which my brother was one of them that got killed."
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley says in a recent campaign ad, “In the Senate, I’ll never stop fighting to make North Carolina safe.” A new anti-Beasley ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee calls that promise into question. NRSC unveiled the ad titled “Victims” on Friday, four days before Beasley was expected to win...
John Hood on protests against legislature by liberal advocates; House legislators debate Racial Justice Act; Robert Pittenger on repealing ObamaCare; Patrick McHenry on IRS targeting of conservative groups; Rick Henderson on income tax refund scams in NC.
John Hood on Obamacare Supreme Court decision's impact on N.C.; legislators debate overriding Gov. Perdue's budget veto and changes to death penalty law in N.C.; legislators on need for more regulatory reform; Becki Gray on the short legislative session
John Hood on GOP veto override of NCAE dues bill; John Stossel on libertarian thinking; Thom Goolsby & Floyd McKissick debate the Racial Justice Act; Kyle Scott on link between federalism & humility; Terry Stoops on 2012 education changes.
RALEIGH — Republicans say that trial lawyers are abusing a law passed last year by the General Assembly aimed at reducing racial bias in death penalty cases, and they plan to introduce legislation this session to change it.
