(RALEIGH) -- Family members of murder victims met with Gov. Beverly Perdue on Monday. They want the Governor to veto a bill that would essentially repeal a 2009 law designed to address alleged racial bias in death penalty cases.

Director of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation Scott Bass said the Governor seemed to understand what the victims' families were saying. "I was watching her as I was listening to these family members tell their stories and she listened and she seemed to get it and she seemed to understand that a system that is free of racial bias is a favor to victims' families.  It helps victims' families get the justice they deserve," said Bass.

There are victims' families on both sides of the issue. During the time the legislation was being debated by the General Assembly, family members of victims told lawmakers they did not want death row inmates to have the opportunity to have their death sentence changed to life in prison.

The Gov. Perdue has until the Dec. 29 to approve the bill, veto it or do nothing and allow it to automatically become law. The Governor has indicated that she would make a decision well before Dec. 29.