NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

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

Children in Prison

NC courts are ending extreme punishments rooted in hysteria & racism. The death penalty should be next.

Jul 19, 2022
Three-quarters of the 136 people living on North Carolina’s death row were sentenced to death in the 1990s. But our large death row is just one of the remnants of that decade’s racist, tough-on-crime rhetoric. We also have dozens of people in prison who were sentenced as teenagers to life without parole or other draconian […]

NC courts are ending extreme punishments rooted in hysteria & racism. The death penalty should be next.

· Kristin Collins

Three-quarters of the 136 people living on North Carolina’s death row were sentenced to death in the 1990s. But our large death row is just one of the remnants of that decade’s racist, tough-on-crime rhetoric. We also have dozens of people in prison who were sentenced as teenagers to life without parole or other draconian […]

Teens are no longer sentenced to death in NC, but many are still victims of the death penalty

Mar 15, 2022
Few of us would choose to be judged solely on the choices we made as teens. But that is exactly what our criminal justice system does when it imposes extremely harsh punishments on mere children. Until 2004, juveniles could even be sentenced to death. There are still nineteen people on North Carolina’s death row condemned […]

Teens are no longer sentenced to death in NC, but many are still victims of the death penalty

· Kristin Collins

Few of us would choose to be judged solely on the choices we made as teens. But that is exactly what our criminal justice system does when it imposes extremely harsh punishments on mere children. Until 2004, juveniles could even be sentenced to death. There are still nineteen people on North Carolina’s death row condemned […]