Johnston County courthouse. Photo: North Carolina Judicial Branch website.SMITHFIELD — Closing arguments took place Wednesday in a Johnston County court proceeding with significant implications for more than 120 people on North Carolina’s death row. As NC Newsline reported at length earlier this year, the case involves Hasson Bacote, a Black man who was sentenced to death in Johnston County in 2009. Bacote and his attorneys are challenging his death sentence under the Racial Justice Act — a North Carolina law enacted in 2009 and repealed in 2013, that allowed capital defendants to argue that race was the basis for their sentence. The law specified that individuals who successfully showed tha
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