RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates' powers and evaluate offenders' mental health after the fatal on a Charlotte commuter train. The bill also could help get the death penalty carried out again in the ninth-largest U.S. state.

Senate and House Republicans unveiled legislation that their leaders previously signaled would surface when the General Assembly reconvened on Monday after nearly two months away from Raleigh.

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