In what many are calling a landmark case, North Carolina used their Racial Justice Act today to convert a man's sentence from execution by the state to life without the possibility of parole. Read more here:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/04/20/151061036/in-first-test-f...

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In this New York Times editorial, the author examines one man's case, and why the possibility of his innocence was meaningless for 30+ years. Read more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/opinion/sunday/when-innocence-isnt-eno...

In this first-person piece written by a California law-maker and architect of their expanded death penalty, readers learn how he (and his influential family) thought the death penalty would work, and why he now has misgivings about the policy. Read more:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-briggs-death-penalt...