RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- On Monday, Senate lawmakers passed HB 307, known as "Iryna's Law," the crime reform bill just filed this week that eliminates cashless bail and lays out new conditions for pretrial release for certain violent offenses. It comes in the aftermath of the Charlotte light rail stabbing that killed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska , for whom the bill is named.

The version of the bill voted through the Senate on Monday includes a new amendment introduced by Senate President Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, that could allow North Carolina to resume executions -- something the state hasn't done since 2006.

That amendment sparked passionate debate on the Senate floor, with several Democrats saying they felt deceived by their Republican colleagues and accusing them of using Zarutsk

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