The update contrasts a Kentucky child killer’s early release and quick reoffending with North Carolina’s stalled death penalty despite over 120 inmates on death row, some incarcerated since the 1980s. It argues that legal challenges over execution methods and the Racial Justice Act have delayed justice at taxpayer expense, and praises House Bill 307, “Iryna’s Law,” for reforming capital prosecutions and executions to ensure both certainty of guilt and timely enforcement as a matter of justice, n