{"id":4173,"date":"2025-11-03T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyonesdiary.com\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:03:16","slug":"irynas-law-may-reinstate-the-firing-squad-for-the-man-accused-of-killing-a-ukrainian-refugee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyonesdiary.com\/?p=4173","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIryna\u2019s Law\u201d may reinstate the firing squad for the man accused of killing a Ukrainian refugee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"287\"><strong data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"287\">North Carolina Could See Its First Execution in Nearly Two Decades Under \u201cIryna\u2019s Law\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"480\">North Carolina may soon see its first execution in nearly 20 years \u2014 and potentially by firing squad \u2014 under a new law inspired by the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee <strong data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"477\">Iryna Zarutska<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"816\">Governor <strong data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"505\">Josh Stein<\/strong> signed <em data-start=\"513\" data-end=\"526\">Iryna\u2019s Law<\/em> on Friday, a sweeping criminal justice reform named after the 23-year-old who was fatally stabbed on a Charlotte light rail train in August. Her accused killer, <strong data-start=\"688\" data-end=\"710\">Decarlos Brown Jr.<\/strong>, 34, was caught on surveillance footage attacking her in an unprovoked assault that shocked the nation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"818\" data-end=\"1208\">The law, formally <strong data-start=\"836\" data-end=\"854\">House Bill 307<\/strong>, paves the way for North Carolina to resume capital punishment, which has been suspended since 2006. While <strong data-start=\"962\" data-end=\"982\">lethal injection<\/strong> remains the only legal method, the legislation permits future use of firing squads, aligning the state with just five others \u2014 Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah \u2014 where the practice is still authorized.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1210\" data-end=\"1464\">The bill also cracks down on <strong data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1271\">repeat and violent offenders<\/strong>, restricting cashless bail and requiring mental health evaluations before release. Brown, who has a history of arrests and untreated schizophrenia, could face the death penalty if convicted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1466\" data-end=\"1610\">Governor Stein praised the bill\u2019s safety reforms but called the firing squad provision \u201cbarbaric,\u201d vowing not to authorize it during his term.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1751\">Friends remembered Zarutska, who fled war-torn Ukraine, as kind and full of promise \u2014 her life now a rallying cry for justice and reform.<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/serieaenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Featured-2025-10-06T172318.633.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serieaenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Featured-2025-10-06T172318.633.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/serieaenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Featured-2025-10-06T172318.633-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/serieaenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Featured-2025-10-06T172318.633-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/serieaenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Featured-2025-10-06T172318.633-768x403.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" \/><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10428 entered lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nba-daily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Decarlos-Brown-Jr.-34-charged-for-murder-of-Iryna-Zarutska-WBTV.jpg?fit=550%2C625&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nba-daily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Decarlos-Brown-Jr.-34-charged-for-murder-of-Iryna-Zarutska-WBTV.jpg?fit=550%2C625&amp;ssl=1\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina Could See Its First Execution in Nearly Two Decades Under \u201cIryna\u2019s Law\u201d North Carolina may soon see its first execution in nearly 20 years \u2014&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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