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North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act Reduced Marcus Robinson’s Sentence From Death Row to Life

Marcus Robinson Inmate sentence reduced to life

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North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act Reduced Marcus Robinson’s Sentence From Death Row to Life 

It’s always nice to hear stories like this. When race plays a major role in how someone’s life was unfairly judged and condemned, its justice systems like this that make us believe in them again.

Report from Huffington Post:

A condemned killer’s trial was so tainted by the racially influenced decisions of prosecutors that he should be removed from death row and serve a life sentence, a judge ruled Friday in a precedent-setting North Carolina decision.