The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...
Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...
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 the decision of the death ...
On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, ...
A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who ...
Bacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...
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.
Judge ruled prosecutors unlawfully dismissed Black jurors in Hasson Bacote's death penalty case and used racist language like ...
In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...