House lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday on a bill that would dissolve the lease for the Dorothea Dix property but offer the City of Raleigh concessions for not fighting a rewrite of the deal.

A bill that would remove the last vestiges of the Racial Justice Act and make several technical changes to state law would allow executions to be carried out in North Carolina again, its backers say.

Sen. Thom Goolsby says his bill would end de facto moratorium on death penalty by repealing the last vestiges of the Racial Justice Act and clarifying other death penalty laws.