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The 2 Percent: Few counties fill death row
The death penalty is perceived as a widely-used criminal justice tool in the United States. However, a new report shows that the majority of death sentences and executions come from only 2 percent of...
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8 Reasons Why Executing People is More Trouble Than It’s Worth
Some of N.C.’s legislators say it’s time to restart executions here, after a nearly eight-year hiatus. Do they know what they’re suggesting? North Carolina has one of the largest death rows in the...
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In CA and NC, death penalty is “empty promise”
Yesterday, a California court confirmed what we have known in North Carolina for years: The death penalty is so dysfunctional as to be not just unconstitutional, but futile. The ruling said of a system...
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As N.C. Attorney General from 1974 to 1984, Rufus Edmisten says he may have put more people on death row than any other attorney general in North Carolina’s history. Now, he’s no longer sure he...
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The 2 Percent: Few counties fill death row
The death penalty is perceived as a widely-used criminal justice tool in the United States. However, a new report shows that the majority of death sentences and executions come from only 2 percent of...
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8 Reasons Why Executing People is More Trouble Than It’s Worth
Some of N.C.’s legislators say it’s time to restart executions here, after a nearly eight-year hiatus. Do they know what they’re suggesting? North Carolina has one of the largest death rows in the...
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In CA and NC, death penalty is “empty promise”
Yesterday, a California court confirmed what we have known in North Carolina for years: The death penalty is so dysfunctional as to be not just unconstitutional, but futile. The ruling said of a system...
View ArticleFormer AG who sent inmates to execution: ‘I’m about to change my mind’ on the...
As N.C. Attorney General from 1974 to 1984, Rufus Edmisten says he may have put more people on death row than any other attorney general in North Carolina’s history. Now, he’s no longer sure he...
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Why North Carolina’s death penalty is not for the “worst of the worst”
By Gretchen M. Engel Reposted from the blog of N.C. Policy Watch Our justice system said Henry McCollum was the “worst of the worst.” Then, we found out he was innocent. Photo by Jenny Warburg Since...
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A juror’s dilemma: The wrenching job of deciding another person’s right to live
In a federal courtroom in Greensboro last week, attorneys were parsing a single conversation between a juror and a religious adviser, which took place during a capital trial more than 20 years earlier....
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A death penalty as random as a lightning strike
April 8, 2019 It’s been nearly 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional nationwide, saying there was “no meaningful basis for distinguishing the few cases in...
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