May I introduce you to some of the first-degree murderers who had their death sentences indefinitely postponed by Chief Justice Beasley and our state Supreme Court on June 5, 2020? All of these are from Randolph County: Kenneth Bernard Rouse Date of Death Sentence: 03-23-1992 Rouse stabbed Hazel Broadway to death while she was working at...
Getting rid of programs and policies that don't work makes perfect sense for North Carolina.
For many North Carolinians opposed to the death penalty, the Racial Justice Act’s obvious logical and legal flaws were quite beside the point.
Anti-death penalty activists like to tell themselves that the policy debate over capital punishment is over. They are wrong.
There is no evidence that, all other factors being equal, blacks are more likely to be executed than whites.
Opponents of North Carolina’s death penalty have seized on a new racial-disparity study as supporting their case. They obviously haven’t thought through its implications.
Whatever you think of North Carolina’s use of the death penalty, the de facto moratorium of the past two years should have struck you as illegal and outrageous.
Does the future of capital punishment in North Carolina hinge on a semantic distinction?
Several hotly debated issues will be disposed of one way or the other this week as the General Assembly tries to wrap up the 2005 session. They include minimum wage, lottery, lobbying, and death penalty proposals.
Advocates of a death-penalty moratorium may fall short of enough House votes to pass their bill. Now a Chapel Hill Democrat is offering a compromise that won’t stop all executions during a study of the justice system.
It was a do-or-die day for many bills at the General Assembly -- or so the rules said -- and for the most part the results were friendly to liberty and good government.
