NORTH CAROLINA COALITION for ALTERNATIVES to the DEATH PENALTY

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    THE DEATH PENALTY?
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    • Laws have Changed, but Sentences Remain Unexamined
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NORTH CAROLINA COALITION for ALTERNATIVES to the DEATH PENALTY
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • About
    • Coalition Members
    • Coalition Staff + Board
  • WHY END
    THE DEATH PENALTY?
    • Innocence
    • Racial Bias
    • Cruel and Unusual
    • Voices of Victims’ Families
    • Laws have Changed, but Sentences Remain Unexamined
    • Unfair Trials, Bad Lawyering & Improper Evidence
    • Intellectual Disabilities
    • Failure to Deter Crime
    • High Cost of Death
    • Declining Support
    • Mental Illness
    • Arbitrary Use
  • ART FROM THE INSIDE
  • LATEST NEWS
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Let your voice be heard
    • Events
    • Join Us
    • Donate
  • Want to help us end the death penalty? Let your voice be heard!
  • "If not now, when? If not you, who?" NC Supreme Court grants relief!
  • We're fighting for justice, fighting for life. Explore the site for stories, statistics, and other reasons why we must work together to end the death penalty.
  • NCCADP is a non-partisan network of organizations and individuals working to end North Carolina’s death penalty. Join us.
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  • For every five people executed in North Carolina, one innocent person has been removed from death row. In total, exonerated men have served 86 years on death row.
  • Act now.
  • NC has the 4th largest death row in the nation, and almost all of its prisoners were sentenced under obsolete laws.
  • African-Americans make up more than half of NC's death row prisoners, but less than a quarter of the state's population.

NC'S DEATH PENALTY TODAY

executions are stalled, but more than 135 people remain on death row

SUPPORT THE COALITION

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RACIAL BIAS

RACIAL JUSTICE ACT

racist jury selection contaminates capital trials

INNOCENCE

10 people who have been sentenced to death in NC have been exonerated

CRUEL and UNUSUAL

VOICES of VICTIMS' FAMILIES

UNEQUAL JUSTICE

three-quarters of people on death row were convicted under outdated laws

UNFAIR TRIALS, BAD LAWYERING, and IMPROPER EVIDENCE

INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

people with disabilities remain on death row, despite laws to protect them

FAILURE TO DETER CRIME

FALLING OUT OF FAVOR

juries & the public are saying no to the death penalty

MENTAL ILLNESS

HIGH COST OF DEATH

executions cost far more than life sentences

WRONGFUL CAPITAL PROSECUTIONS

ARBITRARY USE

the death penalty is as random as a lightning strike

ON THE ROW AT HOME

when loved ones are sentenced to die

FAITH & ABOLITION

faith, belief in human dignity and redemption, and ending capital punishment

RIPPLE BEYOND THE ROW

effects on advocates, jurors, and prison staff

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

the more you know about a person, the less likely you are to support their execution; the more you know about the criminal justice system, the less likely you are to support anyone's execution

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