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AP, NBC17| Aug. 4
The North Carolina Senate may decide whether attorneys could offer a statistical argument showing that racial prejudice put a killer…
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AP, NBC17| Jul. 20
Some North Carolina residents who lost family members to crime but oppose the death penalty are backing state legislation to…
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AP, Associated Press (AP)| Jun. 30
People who want the death penalty abolished in North Carolina are wrapping up a 300-mile pilgrimage by lobbying the Legislature.…
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AP, Associated Press (AP)| Jun. 16
Death penalty opponents are planning a 300-mile walk around eastern North Carolina to lobby for abolition of capital punishment in…
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MyNC.com, AP| May. 28
Several religious leaders want a procedure designed to prevent racial bias in the death penalty without encouraging capital punishment to…
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AP, Associated Press (AP)| May. 21
The head of North Carolina’s NAACP said the state ought to take steps to keep prosecutors and juries from disproportionately…
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AP, Associated Press (AP)| May. 21
Death penalty opponents plan to stage a demonstration outside North Carolina’s General Assembly.
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AP, NBC17| May. 14
The legal knot that has delayed North Carolina executions could be unraveled in legislation tentatively approved by the Senate. The…
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News & Observer, News & Observer| May. 14
Senate action on Wednesday could provide a way to move beyond a legal stop to the death penalty by lethal…
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AP, Associated Press (AP)| Mar. 4
It’s been more than two years since North Carolina put an inmate to death, and the unofficial freeze on capital…
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N&O, News & Observer| Dec. 16
Six men accused of kidnapping and killing a 20-year-old Chapel Hill man have to wait to find out whether the…
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Kim Genardo, NBC17| Nov. 18
The North Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over a doctor’s role when a murderer is put to death…
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Yvette Yeon, NBC17| Nov. 18
The state’s highest court will take up North Carolina’s death penalty today.
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News & Observer, News & Observer| Nov. 1
The N&O is reporting that Wake prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Wendell man accused killing another man…
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The Associated Press, NBC17| Oct. 17
A state court judge said Thursday he wants to hear arguments from lawyers for the state and condemned inmates in…
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NBC17 and Associated Press, NBC17 and Associated Press| Sep. 29
The Attorney General’s Review Committee on Capital Cases is meeting to discuss the case of University of North Carolina Student…
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The Associated Press, Associated Press (AP)| Aug. 8
A death penalty protester has been convicted of trespassing during the execution of an inmate two years ago.
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