A North Carolina Judge Just Acknowledged an Undeniable Truth: The Death Penalty Is Racist
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 robbery attempt when Bacote was 20. The other two defendants in the case were convicted on lesser charges and later released from prison.”