infects capital cases in North Carolina. The four petitioners had death sentences reversed and were resentenced to life without parole (LWOP).

But in 2013, the law was repealed by the same new legislature that targeted Black voters with “surgical precision” in voter suppression, and the four petitioners were all sent back to death row without new trials. Two additional petitioners—who had uncovered evidence through the RJA but not yet had hearings—were also subsequently denied their day in court.

On August 26th and 27th, we, along with five other legal teams and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., will go before the North Carolina Supreme Court to fight for the rights of the six petitioners to have their evidence recognized and their death sentences overturned. The Attorney General forAesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

A dog made false accusations against the sheep, saying, 'You must give
me back the bread which I gave you on loan.' This led to an argument,
since the sheep insisted that she had never taken any bread from the dog.
When they took the matter to court, the dog reportedly claimed to have
witnesses. The wolf was brought in and he swore, 'I know that the sheep
borrowed bread from the dog.' The kite was brought in and he swore, 'I
saw the sheep take it.' As the hawk came in, he said to the sheep, 'Do
you deny that you took it?' Defeated by these three false witness, the
sheep was hard pressed to pay back the loan; in order to return what she
had not borrowed, she was