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April 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The organisation said the case was the first test under North Carolina’s new Racial Justice Act, which allows capital defendants to use statistical evidence to show systemic bias in the death penalty.
In a copy of a motion filed in the case that was obtained by AFP, Robinson’s attorneys said “race was a significant factor” in the trial and asked the court “to enter a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.”
The ACLU, which co-signed the motion, said in a statement that North Carolina’s judicial system “is plagued by racial discrimination.”
“In the last decade … defendants convicted of killing white victims were more than twice as likely to receive the death penalty from the jury than defendants charged with killing victims of colour,” the statement said.
“This evidence points to the disturbing conclusion that Marcus Robinson, a black defendant convicted for the death of a white person, received a far harsher judgment than white defendants who committed comparable crimes and from a jury that may have been tainted by a racially biased jury selection process,” the ACLU statement said.
Robinson, who was 18 years old at the time, was convicted of killing a white teenager in 1991. His execution had been scheduled once but a judge granted him a reprieve.
Prosecutors said they plan to appeal, according to the North Carolina media.
Source: AFP
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