volunteer and his daughter is now in remission.”

In his first year as a volunteer, Burr said the fantasy flight had brought so much joy and happiness into his daughter that he wanted to help out and be a part of the event in some way.

Fantasy flights take place in 13 cities, including internationally in London and Guam.

This year, the fantasy flights occurred at all of United’s major domestic hubs, including: Phoenix, Cleveland, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, Denver, Honolulu and Newark, according to United Airlines website.

Marilyn M. Harris, vice president of community relations at Beth Israel Hospital, praised the organizers and participants, trying to explain the joy it creates.

“Eight children from Beth Israel Hospital are here today,” she said. “This is an event forIn 2009, North Carolina passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA), which allowed defendants to strike the death penalty from their cases if they could show that racial discrimination was a factor in their prosecution. The law came as a response to a series of exonerations of Black people who were falsely convicted of crimes they did not commit by all-white or nearly all-white juries. The legislature took a bold step to address was what suspected to be deeply troubling evidence of racism infecting the death penalty—but no one knew for sure what evidence uncovered by the RJA would find.

In 2010, people on death row began filing RJA claims. Four had hearings, and the evidence uncovered was indeed stark, troubling, and clearly pointed to the systemic ways that racism