North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed a repeal to a law that allowed death row inmates to seek a reduced sentence if they were able to prove that racial prejudice played a role in their punishment.
Reuters reports that the Racial Justice Act had helped four inmates get their death sentences changed to life in prison without parole after the act went into effect in 2009.
McCrory said that his repealing of the law would allow North Carolina to start executing inmates again. No one has been executed in the state since 2006, even with 152 inmates sitting on death row.
"The state's district attorneys are nearly unanimous in their bipartisan conclusion that the Racial Justice Act created a judicial loophole to avoid the death penalty and not a path to justice," McCrory said.
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