Sentences with phrase «impermissible role in their cases»

He has played a key role in advocacy efforts to limit the death penalty, helping to enact one North Carolina statute barring the death penalty for persons with intellectual disabilities and another that allowed death row prisoners to present statistical disparities and other evidence to show that race played an impermissible role in their cases.

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And re the Board's role on appeal, the Board did not act improperly in arguing the merits of this case, nor did the arguments raised on appeal amount to impermissible «bootstrapping».