Bias claims are new diversion for NC executions

RALEIGH (StarNewsOnline.com) — Two decades after Blanche Taylor Moore was sent to death row for the fatal poisoning of a former boyfriend, her pathway to the execution chamber has been diverted again. The 77-year-old white woman is among dozens of capital convicts in North Carolina this week who have alleged racial bias in sentencing. Some observers think the argument could upend the state’s system of capital punishment — a program that already faces a series of other lingering questions.