North Carolina death row inmates may be eligible for resentencing after Hasson Bacote's victory last week. Death row inmates across North Carolina may be eligible for resentencing after a judge ...

By Dannel Malloy As a former prosecutor, mayor, governor of Connecticut and a member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, I have spent much of my career in and around the ...

On Friday, a judge said race did play a role in the trial and death sentence of Hasson Bacote. Bacote was previously sentenced to death for the 2007 death of Anthony Surles during a robbery attempt.

Sermons made his ruling in the case of Hasson Bacote, who, as NBC News notes, was convicted of murder “along with two others in the 2007 fatal shooting of Anthony Surles, 18, during a home ...

In the case, a man named Hasson Bacote challenged the death sentence he received in a murder trial based on his contention that race, and racism played a role in the sentence he received ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (WNCN) — On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, influencing the makeup of the jury along with ...

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Death row inmates across North Carolina may be eligible for resentencing after a judge ruled last week that a Black defendant’s capital trial was compromised by the presence of an almost all ...