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N.C. legislature’s death penalty plan: Remove safeguards, add secrecy, ignore...
A few months ago, the world watched as Henry McCollum was declared innocent after 30 years on North Carolina’s death row. Now, N.C. lawmakers say we need to hurry up and execute people. The idea defies...
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The next “right thing” for McCrory: Halt executions
Finally! Ten months after a judge declared them innocent, Gov. Pat McCrory has acknowledged what we already knew — Henry McCollum and Leon Brown are innocent of the crime for which they were sentenced...
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Gov. McCrory: On executions bill, a veto isn’t enough
Henry McCollum on the day of his exoneration.Photo by Jenny Warburg We have seen botched executions across the country, and discovered innocent men on death row right here at home. Yet, N.C. lawmakers...
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U.S. executions become theater of the absurd
Richard Glossip Richard Glossip had already eaten his last meal and was minutes away from execution when Oklahoma’s governor called it off last week, saying there were “last minute questions” about the...
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U.S. executions grind to a halt as lethal injection stumbles
The death penalty has been on the decline in the U.S. for more than a decade, but right now, capital punishment is imploding rather spectacularly in almost every state in the nation. States are...
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Traumatized veterans get no mercy in N.C.
James Davis receiving his Purple Heart, for service in Vietnam, while on N.C.’s death row. As we prepare to honor military veterans on Wednesday, a sobering new report shows that North Carolina is one...
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Death penalty use reaches historic lows in 2015
The 2015 numbers are in, and the trend is clear: The death penalty is dying. In North Carolina, juries did not impose a single new death sentence this year. It was the second year since 2012 that no...
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Exonerations set record pace in 2015
Joseph Sledge, who spent 37 years in prison, was one of five people exonerated in N.C. in 2015 The harder we look, the more evident it becomes: Our criminal justice system cannot be trusted to get it...
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A promise worth keeping: No more death penalty in Wake
Wake County DA Lorrin Freeman This week, Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman learned what the citizens of her county have already realized: Wake County no longer needs the death penalty....
View ArticleWeak evidence sends innocents to prison, or death
Video courtesy of The News & Observer Yesterday, Howard Dudley was exonerated after serving 23 years for a crime he never committed — sexually abusing his daughter. Dudley was convicted and...
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The next “right thing” for McCrory: Halt executions
Finally! Ten months after a judge declared them innocent, Gov. Pat McCrory has acknowledged what we already knew — Henry McCollum and Leon Brown are innocent of the crime for which they were sentenced...
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U.S. executions become theater of the absurd
Richard Glossip Richard Glossip had already eaten his last meal and was minutes away from execution when Oklahoma’s governor called it off last week, saying there were “last minute questions” about the...
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U.S. executions grind to a halt as lethal injection stumbles
The death penalty has been on the decline in the U.S. for more than a decade, but right now, capital punishment is imploding rather spectacularly in almost every state in the nation. States are...
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Traumatized veterans get no mercy in N.C.
James Davis receiving his Purple Heart, for service in Vietnam, while on N.C.’s death row. As we prepare to honor military veterans on Wednesday, a sobering new report shows that North Carolina is one...
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Death penalty use reaches historic lows in 2015
The 2015 numbers are in, and the trend is clear: The death penalty is dying. In North Carolina, juries did not impose a single new death sentence this year. It was the second year since 2012 that no...
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Exonerations set record pace in 2015
Joseph Sledge, who spent 37 years in prison, was one of five people exonerated in N.C. in 2015 The harder we look, the more evident it becomes: Our criminal justice system cannot be trusted to get it...
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A promise worth keeping: No more death penalty in Wake
Wake County DA Lorrin Freeman This week, Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman learned what the citizens of her county have already realized: Wake County no longer needs the death penalty....
View ArticleWeak evidence sends innocents to prison, or death
Video courtesy of The News & Observer Yesterday, Howard Dudley was exonerated after serving 23 years for a crime he never committed — sexually abusing his daughter. Dudley was convicted and...
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Executing intellectually disabled inmates is unconstitutional, but N.C. tries...
The U.S. Supreme Court decided 15 years ago that it is cruel and unusual to execute people with intellectual disabilities. Yet, at least two of the 12 people executed so far this year had clear...
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Former N.C. Chief Justice: I have lost faith in the death penalty
Former Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake This week, I. Beverly Lake, a longtime Republican and the former chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court, told the world that he believes the death penalty is...
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