Senate to Vote on Racial Justice Act Tomorrow
Submitted by deathwatch on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 10:29am
The NC Senate is expected to vote tomorrow on whether to concur with the Racial Justice Act as passed by the House.
The Racial Justice Act would allow a defendant facing the death penalty or an inmate on death row to challenge the decision to seek or impose the death penalty in his or her case if that decision was made on the basis of race.
The version of the bill passed by the House is different than the version passed by the Senate, not least in that the Senate version was amended to include language aimed at restarting executions immediately.
The Senate should vote to concur on the clean House version of the bill, rather than forcing the bill into a joint committee.
Here's what you can do to help.
FAX AND EMAIL
Click here to fax and/or email NC Senators and ask them to concur on Racial Justice Act (S461) this Tuesday!
CALL:
Charlie Alberson - (919) 733-5705
Marc Basnight - (919) 733-6854
Don Davis - (919) 733-5621
Steve Goss - (919) 733-5742
David Hoyle - (919) 733-5734
Tony Rand - (919) 733-9892
John Snow - (919) 733-5875
A.B. Swindell -(919) 715-3030
The NC Racial Justice Act would not have made it as far as it has without your help. Thank you for everything you do!
North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium
PO Box 1008
Durham, NC 27702
919.827.4729
RJA 411
You can learn more about the RJA in my blog.
On the Senate amendments to the Racial Justice Act
What do district attorneys think of the RJA?
How did the RJA move through the House? Find out here, here, and here.
Please take a minute to contact your Senator
the form is easy and quick.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
E-mail
sent. And I'm asking others to do the same. I figure I ask people to support Equality NC e-mail "action alerts" all the time, and this is very much in the same spirit of supporting equality, fairness, & justice.
update
Folks -
The Senate hasn't yet voted. Word is that the vote will come next week.
Keep those phone calls and e-mails coming!
- DeathWatch