Were Black Jurors Struck Because of Race? Question Looms Over NC Death Penalty Case

Gretchen Engel, executive director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, is part of the legal team representing Frank Junior Chambers, who has lived half his life on North Carolina’s death row and is seeking a new trial based on the Batson challenge. The case “has cried out for relief since 1994 when the jury selection happened,” she says.