Black Man Ordered Off Death Row After Case Deemed Racially Tainted

This is the first case under North Carolina’s 2009 Racial Justice Act.

Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks said condemned inmate Marcus Robinson should be spared execution and instead serve a life sentence in prison without possibility of parole.

Weeks found that prosecutors deliberately excluded qualified black jurors from jury service in Robinson’s case, and said there was evidence this was happening in courts throughout the state.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.