FROM FOX NEWS: North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Friday signed “Iryna’s Law,” which increases checks on criminals getting out on bail and prohibits cashless bail for some violent crimes and most repeat offenders following the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light-rail train in August.
Stein, a Democrat, has said he doesn’t like every part of the bill that was passed by the Republican-controlled state Legislature, which also looks to restart executions in North Carolina, but he signed it because it “alerts the judiciary to take a special look at people who may pose unusual risks of violence before determining their bail. That’s a good thing.”
Iryna Zarutska, 23, was killed on Aug. 22, and Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., who had been arrested more than a dozen times, including an armed robbery charge for which he served five years in prison before the fatal train stabbing, has been charged with first-degree murder.
“We can and must do more to keep people safe,” Stein said. “When I review public safety legislation that comes to my desk, I use one simple test: Does it make people safer?”
“We can and must do more to keep people safe.”
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signed "Iryna’s Law," toughening bail rules after a Ukrainian refugee was fatally stabbed on a Charlotte train in August.
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