(RALEIGH) -- Some say they do not seem to have the votes, but the state House will attempt make a run at overriding Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of a bill that would essentially repeal the Racial Justice Act.  The General Assembly is set to meet on Wednesday afternoon.

Republican Rep. Dale Folwell said he hopes the veto can be overridden. "In any level of government somebody has to protect the invisible, the people who are murdered who are no longer here who can't speak for themselves or walk the halls of the General Assembly or call into our office and the Racial Justice Act was never about race and it was never about justice," said Folwell.

The Racial Justice Act gives a death row inmate an opportunity to appeal their sentence based on racial discrimination. Perdue on Dec. 14 vetoed the legislation that would revise the law that would effectively do away with it. Six days after the veto, as required by state law, the Governor issued a proclamation to reconvene legislators to consider override votes.

State NAACP President Rev. William Barber said trying to repeal the act is wrong. "It's a model for the nation. We're trying to right the wrongful and racial application of the death penalty and all of us should be for that," said Barber.

Local prosecutors and civil rights advocates have been on opposite sides of the legislation.