RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A tough on crime bill passed by state legislators in the wake of a deadly train stabbing will be signed into law by Gov. Josh Stein, his office said Friday.

The governor announced his intention to sign House Bill 307 in a video statement.

The bill is also known as Iryna's Law after Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian woman stabbed and killed on a Charlotte train last month. The man accused of stabbing Zarutska, DeCarlos Brown Jr., had a violent criminal history, but was recently charged with a nonviolent misdemeanor crime, and released by a magistrate.

Republican lawmakers drafted the bill, stating it was intended to keep people such as Brown held in jail or treated for mental health concerns. But the bill received opposition from Democrats after a late amendment to add

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