Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermon found race played a major role in the prosecution and sentencing of Hasson Bacote to the death penalty in 2009. Gov. Roy Cooper granted Bacote clemency on Dec. 31, ...
On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, ...
On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, ...
Judge ruled prosecutors unlawfully dismissed Black jurors in Hasson Bacote's death penalty case and used racist language like ...
SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on ...
The Trump administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on ...
The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...
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SALT LAKE CITY — The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Utah filed an amicus brief in the Utah Supreme Court today urging the court to uphold the Utah Constitution’s protection against ...
Marlon BaCote, MA, CSAS-S, QMHP-A, RPRS, is a public speaker and Ph.D. candidate in psychology. A native of Newport News, he now lives in Richmond.
Supporters of the campaign include former prisoners who were exonerated after serving time on death row, and people who have lost family members ... lawyers for Hasson Bacote, a Black man who ...