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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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20th Anniversary Sponsors

We’re incredibly grateful to the sponsors who make NCCADP’s 20th anniversary events possible. Their generosity supports programming for this historic anniversary and sustains the work still ahead. We’re honored to recognize each of them below.

Visionary Sponsors
$5,000+
Jay and Kay Ferguson
Legacy Sponsors
$1,000+
Curry First and Patricia Robertson
Death Penalty Action
Laura and Charlie Thomas
Mark and Dawn Melrose
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Justice Sponsors
$500+
ACLU of North Carolina
Carol Nickle
Chip Sharpe and Celestine Armenta
First Presbyterian Church Durham
Franciscan Friars
Helen and Fred Spielman
Jennifer and Patrick Marsh
Monica Lavery
NC Council of Churches
Steve Schewel and Lao Rubert
Grassroots Sponsors
$250+
Alex Cury
Catholic Mobilizing Network
Community Civil Activist
Deacon Clarke and Anne Cochran
Erik and Libby Johnson
Forward Justice
Frank Goldsmith
Human Kindness Foundation
Jessica Turner
John and Jill Balogh
Jubilee Home
NC Justice Center
Paul Klever and Sally Freeman
Roy and Julie Smith
S. Reid and Laura Russell
Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting
Terri Flam-Goldberg
The Honorable Mary Ann Tally
The Law Office of Leah Broker
The Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of NC
Last Updated: September 3, 2026

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

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North Carolina has gone 20 years without an execut North Carolina has gone 20 years without an execution. More than 100 organizations and faith and community leaders are calling on the state to make that permanent.

Organized by NCCADP and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, the statement reflects growing support across North Carolina for moving beyond the death penalty for good.

Read more at the link in our bio!
Last week's interfaith service was only possible b Last week's interfaith service was only possible because so many of our incredible community members offered their words, traditions, experiences, and presence so generously. 

We are grateful to every person who helped lead us through the service:

Rev. Chalice Overy of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church 
Yousuf Siddiqui of the Islamic Association of Raleigh 
Marianne Norris of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Community
Rabbi Sandra Lawson of Carolina Jews for Justice 
Rev. Frank Dew of the North Carolina Council of Churches 
Nancy Jones of Catholics for Abolition in NC
Rev. Veronica Murphy of Wayman AME Church 
Elizabeth Norval of Unitarian Universalist Peace Fellowship Raleigh 
Rev. Esther Hethcox of First Presbyterian Church, Durham NC 
Noel Nickle of NCCADP
Michael Flaherty of the Kadampa Center for the Practice of Tibetan Buddhism

We are especially grateful to Alfred Rivera and Pat McCoy, members of NCCADP's Survivor Family Engagement Group, who shared a Litany of Remembrance and Healing shaped by their own experiences of the death penalty.

And thank you to each and every person who joined us on this meaningful evening. 

Let the last execution be the last.
A week ago today we gathered outside Central Priso A week ago today we gathered outside Central Prison to bear witness.
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