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QUff BatUj Qlar MM Joint Committee Examines Equality in Death Penalty The Racial Justice Act, a possible bill, could stop race from being considered in death penalty decisions. By Jennifer Hagin Staff Writer A newly created joint legislative com mittee will investigate whether minori ties and the mentally disabled receive disproportionately more death sen tences than their white counterparts. The N.C. General Assembly formed the board in light of three separate bills introduced in the past year aiming to curb prosecutors’ ability to seek the death penalty. One bill would prohibit prosecutors from pursuing the death penalty in cases with a mentally disabled defendant. Another calls for a moratorium to allow further study of the issue. Chapel Hill and Carrboro leaders have passed sym bolic death penalty moratoriums. The third bill would be known as the Racialjustice Act, which would prevent prosecutors from using race as a deter mining factor in their decisions to pur sue the death penalty. Sen. Frank Ballance, D-Warren, co chairman of the legislative committee, said the panel had held three meetings since its formation and would not be able to report to the legislature when it reconvened in May but would report by the end of this year. “We haven’t had Reaching Into Empty Pockets? M Participate in our life-saving & financially rewarding plasma donation program. JpjLv \ * IMMEDIATE COMPENSATION! mtm \ Donors Earn up to $165 per Month! WBm \ \ ★New donors earn S2O for first visit, Call or stop by: parking validated w *^ Mn Sera-Tecßtologicais^^ www.seratec.citysearch.com 109 1/2 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill • 942-0251 • Closed Mondays, T-F 10-6, SAT 10-2 RETIREMENT INSURANCE MUTUAt FUNDS TRUSTS ERV IC E 5 TUI TI 0N FI NAN CI N G TIAA-CREF provides financial solutions to last a lifetime. 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Frank Ballance D-Warren Civil Liberties Union, said the issue of race affecting death penalty decisions was worth investigating. “I think a lot of people believe it’s a problem in North Carolina,” she said. “We definitely need to take a good look at this.” The panel has had various experts present information, including Jack Boger, a law professor at UNC. These experts offered the committee different viewpoints and statistics regarding the death penalty in North Carolina. Ballance said in cases where a black defendant killed a white person, the defendant received the death penalty nine times more often then a white defendant would. “I find it disparaging, the amount of African Americans on death row compared to other races.” H.B. Prickett, president of the Raleigh-Apex chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said there was a prob lem with race being a factor in death penalty cases. “It’s a big problem. It’s been going on for a long time - at least 50 years,” he said. Prickett said the reason there was a disproportionate number of blacks on death row was because they could not afford their own lawyers, and the lawyers that were provid ed to them were inexperienced. “It could be corrected by providing persons coming in front of the court with the same attorneys (that wealthy defendants have),” he said. Ballance said race should not be a factor in determining a sentence. “We’ve got to move to the point where decisions are not based on race.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. n Course Oven to the Public Student Weekday Specials S2O with cart/sll walking All Winter Merchandise 50% OFF with purchase of 18 hole green fee www.southwickgolf.com cC -n, Call for Tee Times 942-0783 Directions: Take 54 West 20 miles lo a stoplight. Take a left on Swepsonville Rd. and go 1 mile to a stop sign. 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He also founded the electronic music studio in Hill Hall and conducted the New Music Ensemble, which performed pieces by student composers. “These other pursuits never detract ed from his composing," he said. “There was a kind of interaction. I was simultaneously independent as a cre ative artist, but all my teaching came from my own point of view as an artist. My teaching was extremely idiosyn cratic ... from the inside-out.” The premiere of Symphony No. 7 at UNC provides closure, Hannay said. “I think it’s very wonderful that this last piece of mine, this big seventh sympho ny, is going to be premiered where I had such a long, pleasant association." T B ftn SB BB 9 ,hh ttjp BJ9 b SB a BBllwS JH| / ~ A Looking for some.seriously'powerful study tools? Check out WebCT com. It s an e-learning hub. where you can get Help studying, find research materials, take, practice tests and more. 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M. v- C PM MM ■ -Rr— getting smarter all the time Hannay also wrote some closure into the piece itself. “Knowing that it was going to be my last piece, I thought this (would be) a good time for bringing things full-circle,” he said. “And so toward the end of the piece ... there’s a statement of a melody from my very first composition, from 1944.” Symphony No. 7 is a one-movement, four-section work, alternately solemn, whirlwind-fast, lyrical and pensive, Hannay said. “My music ... is never academic,” he said. “It is always full of emotional con tent and drama of some kind, and it’s never composed to illustrate some kind of technical or academic theory.” Hannay hopes the symphony will have an impact on the audience. “I want them to have been made thoughtful, and to have experienced this wonderful thing that music can do, which is to take us to the heights and the depths in 20 minutes,” he said. Athens 7,d()0 miles Chicago 85CM New York 650 miles V* Just Minutes Away... A H A OfCHAPEL HILL * in front of South 4139 Chapel HiH Blvcl. L 7511 Still accepting reservations for Mother’s Day & Graduation Weekend Wednesday, April 26, 2000 Achieving this impact hinges on the talents of the musicians playing the piece, Hannay said. “An orchestra piece is rather like an elaborate play, with a great many actors,” he said. Hannay is confident in the “actors” performing his piece, he said. “The orchestra this season, and indeed for the past several seasons, under (conductor) Tonu Kalam, is about the best of any orchestra I know of in a liberal arts, science-oriented state uni versity,” he said. “Kalam has performed something of a miracle." Roger Hannay’s Symphony No. 7 will premiere at 8 p.m. Thursday in Hill Hall Auditorium, followed by Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E-minor “From the New World.” The perfor mance is free. The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu. 7
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