On his last day in office, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without parole. One case involved Hasson Bacote, a Black man who challenged his sentence under the Racial Justice Act of 2009, which allows condemned inmates to seek resentencing if racial bias played a role in their cases.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, on his last day in office Tuesday, commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without parole. One of the prisoners receiving clemency was convicted murderer Hasson Bacote, a Black man who had challenged his sentence under the Racial Justice Act of 2009, a groundbreaking state law that allows condemned inmates to seek resentencing if they can show racial bias played a role in their cases.
The other inmates whose sentences were commuted are: Iziah Barden, 67, convicted in Sampson County in 1999; Nathan Bowie, 53, convicted in Catawba County in 1993; Rayford Burke, 66, convicted in Iredell County in 1993; Elrico Fowler, 49, convicted in Mecklenburg County in 1997; Cerron Hooks, 46, convicted in Forsyth County in 2000; Guy LeGrande, 65, convicted in Stanly County in 1996; James Little, 38, convicted in Forsyth County in 2008; Robbie Locklear, 52, convicted in Robeson County in...
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