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NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Committed to ending the death penalty and creating a new vision of justice

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    • Mission & History
    • Our Values
    • People Most Proximate
    • Coalition Members
    • Staff, Board, & Advisory Council
    • Our Funders
  • What We Do
  • Why End the Death Penalty?
    • Column 1
      • Racism
      • Innocence
      • Intellectual Disability & Mental Illness
    • Column 2
      • Public Safety
      • High Cost of Death
      • Waning Support
    • Column 3
      • Lethal Injection
      • Antiquated Sentences
      • Unfair Trials
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The North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty is a statewide coalition of member organizations and individuals committed to ending the death penalty and creating a new vision of justice. We are dedicated to broad criminal legal reform rooted in restorative justice. We work with and educate lawmakers, communities, and the public about the racist, unjust and ineffectual death penalty system. Read more.

NC Death Penalty
by the Numbers

  • 121 people on death row.
  • Nearly 60% are people of color.
  • Nearly half were sentenced by overwhelmingly white juries.
  • 2 times more likely to be sentenced to death if victim of the murder is white.
  • 12 innocent people exonerated.
  • 11 exonerees are people of color.
  • 43 people executed since 1976.
  • 2006: the last year someone was executed.
  • 2023: the last year someone was sentenced to death.
  • 19 capital trials are scheduled for 2025.
  • $2.16 million average additional cost for each case resulting in execution vs. sentenced to life in prison.
SEE A MAP OF THE NC DEATH PENALTY

From the Blog

Juneteenth, Mass Incarceration, and the Death Penalty in North Carolina

Juneteenth focuses our attention and joy on Black and Brown people and calls on everyone to embrace the wisdom of people most affected by systemic injustice. If you’re asking yourself (or me) what Juneteenth has to do with ending the death penalty here in North Carolina, this essay is for you. I write this as…

Continue Reading Juneteenth, Mass Incarceration, and the Death Penalty in North Carolina

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People Most Proximate

“We cannot create justice without getting close to places where injustices prevail. We have to get proximate.”
—Bryan Stevenson

We have much to learn from the voices of those directly affected by the death penalty: People who’ve lost loved ones to murder, people on and exonerated from death row and their families, and people who’ve suffered the grief of execution. Their leadership is key to ending the death penalty. Here, you can read their stories and see the art they’ve created as they journey to find healing after losing a loved one, to go on living under a sentence of death, and to discover a more expansive meaning for the word “justice.”

Our Stories

Our Creativity

Upcoming Events

Jul 22
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

NCCADP July Info Session

Aug 6
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

NCCADP Family Survivor Engagement Group

Aug 16
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

We Keep Us Alive: An Afternoon to Remember Those Executed & Envision a Future of Abolition

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3326 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.
Building D, Suite 201
Durham, NC 27707
noel@nccadp.org
919-404-7409

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Today, we honor the 1974 Raleigh march that saw th Today, we honor the 1974 Raleigh march that saw thousands stand united and unwavering against the death penalty. 

Led by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and speakers like Angela Davis, the crowd called out a system that was rapidly condemning people to die – disproportionately Black, poor, and silenced.

Fifty-one years later, we honor the courage of these protestors and carry their fight forward. Freedom means ending the systems that cage and kill. 

The death penalty has no place in a truly free society. Not then. Not now.

Happy July 4! 

Photos courtesy of the NC State University Special Collections Research Center.

#IndependenceDay #EndTheDeathPenalty #July4 #NoMoreDeathRow
Last week, we gathered with dear friends to fuel t Last week, we gathered with dear friends to fuel the journey toward justice. We were reminded of the power of community.

A huge thank you to Gerda Stein and Lee Norris for hosting us and to @brittonbuchanan for the beautiful music – thank you for making this evening possible!

Thank you to everyone who joined us and to all who walk this path beside us. 💛

#FuelTheJourney #nccadp #EndTheDeathPenalty #NoMoreDeathRow  #AbolishTheDeathPenalty
On this day in 1976, the Supreme Court gave the de On this day in 1976, the Supreme Court gave the death penalty a green light, and the modern machinery of state-sanctioned execution was born.

In Gregg v. Georgia, the Court reversed its earlier decision in Furman v. Georgia and ruled that capital punishment could be constitutional if applied "fairly."

Nearly 50 years later, we know the truth. It's still racist, arbitrary, and unjust.

Swipe through to learn how Gregg v. Georgia reshaped the death penalty and how that legacy still haunts our legal system today.

#DeathPenalty #GreggvGeorgia #CriminalJusticeReform #EndTheDeathPenalty #AbolishTheDeathPenalty #FurmanvGeorgia #SupremeCourt #JusticeNotDeath
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