North Carolina has not used the death penalty since 2006. But that might change because of DeCarlos Brown Jr. He is the man who pulled a knife from his pocket on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, in August, and stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in the neck three times.
It was all captured in a chilling video. She was pronounced dead within minutes. He was denounced as an example of our failed criminal justice system: two violent felonies, including one for which Brown spent five years in prison, plus at least 12 other arrests…