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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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Declining Support

After hate-filled murders in N.C., choosing a legacy of love and light over the darkness of the death penalty

Apr 12, 2019
The families of Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha lost their children in a terrible and senseless crime that terrorized the entire Muslim community. Still, they have chosen the path of light and love. They opened a community center for young Muslim people in a house that Barakat once owned. They started an annual interfaith food drive in the victims’ honor. And this week they supported the Durham DA's decision not to pursue the death penalty at their killer's trial.

After hate-filled murders in N.C., choosing a legacy of love and light over the darkness of the death penalty

April 12, 2019 · Kristin Collins

The families of Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha lost their children in a terrible and senseless crime that terrorized the entire Muslim community. Still, they have chosen the path of light and love. They opened a community center for young Muslim people in a house that Barakat once owned. They started an annual interfaith food drive in the victims’ honor. And this week they supported the Durham DA’s decision not to pursue the death penalty at their killer’s trial.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice Reform, Declining Support, Declining Use, Failure to Serve Victims, Latest News, National News

In California, the moral case for ending the death penalty

Mar 14, 2019
In today’s world, it’s easy to think politicians on both sides of the aisle care only about their own power and reelection chances. But every once in a while, we see an act of moral leadership that renews our faith in government. This week, it happened in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he would dismantle the death chamber and grant the state’s nearly 750 death row inmates a reprieve. They will remain incarcerated but will no longer live under the threat of execution. It was a stunning move in a state with the nation’s largest death row. North Carolina, too, should make the enlightened choice to put an official end to the death penalty.

In California, the moral case for ending the death penalty

March 14, 2019 · Kristin Collins

In today’s world, it’s easy to think politicians on both sides of the aisle care only about their own power and reelection chances. But every once in a while, we see an act of moral leadership that renews our faith in government. This week, it happened in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he would dismantle the death chamber and grant the state’s nearly 750 death row inmates a reprieve. They will remain incarcerated but will no longer live under the threat of execution. It was a stunning move in a state with the nation’s largest death row. North Carolina, too, should make the enlightened choice to put an official end to the death penalty.

Filed Under: Abolition, Declining Support, Declining Use, Latest News, National News

NC Supreme Court Building with American and State Flag, seen through the trees

Why we’re winning the fight against the death penalty in North Carolina

Dec 17, 2018
In 2018, for the second year in a row, juries didn’t hand down any new death sentences. We shouldn’t underestimate how significant that is in a state that, in the 1990s, sent dozens of people to death row every year. Executions remained on hold for a twelfth year. And even our state’s district attorneys have begun to flag in their enthusiasm for death sentences.

Why we’re winning the fight against the death penalty in North Carolina

December 17, 2018 · Kristin Collins

NC Supreme Court Building with American and State Flag, seen through the trees
NC Supreme Court Building with American and State Flag, seen through the trees

In 2018, for the second year in a row, juries didn’t hand down any new death sentences. We shouldn’t underestimate how significant that is in a state that, in the 1990s, sent dozens of people to death row every year. Executions remained on hold for a twelfth year. And even our state’s district attorneys have begun to flag in their enthusiasm for death sentences.

Filed Under: Declining Support, Declining Use, Latest News, Statistics

A young Nathan Bowie, age 4, smiling on a building's front stoop, in Philadelphia

NC, let’s take a hint from Washington: It’s time to end the racist death penalty

Oct 16, 2018
Last week, Washington became the 20th state to end the death penalty after its Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment is arbitrary and racially biased. If those are reasons to outlaw the death penalty, then it is surely time for the North Carolina death penalty to go. If anything, the death penalty in NC is more racist, more arbitrary, and threatens the lives of far more people.

NC, let’s take a hint from Washington: It’s time to end the racist death penalty

October 16, 2018 · Kristin Collins

A young Nathan Bowie, age 4, smiling on a building's front stoop, in Philadelphia
A young Nathan Bowie, age 4, smiling on a building's front stoop, in Philadelphia

Last week, Washington became the 20th state to end the death penalty after its Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment is arbitrary and racially biased. If those are reasons to outlaw the death penalty, then it is surely time for the North Carolina death penalty to go. If anything, the death penalty in NC is more racist, more arbitrary, and threatens the lives of far more people.

Filed Under: Abolition, Arbitrary Use, Declining Support, Declining Use, Latest News, Laws have Changed, but Sentences Remain Unexamined, National News, Racial Bias

Wake County Justice Center building

This keeps happening: Wake jury rejects death penalty for 9th time in a row

Jan 24, 2018
It’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day in Wake County. Every year begins with a capital trial, and every year, the jury chooses life. Wake is the only county in the state where a defendant has been tried capitally every year for the past three years. We're hoping that, next year, we can skip this annual ritual.

This keeps happening: Wake jury rejects death penalty for 9th time in a row

January 24, 2018 · Kristin Collins

Wake County Justice Center building
Wake County Justice Center building

It’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day in Wake County. Every year begins with a capital trial, and every year, the jury chooses life. Wake is the only county in the state where a defendant has been tried capitally every year for the past three years. We’re hoping that, next year, we can skip this annual ritual.

Filed Under: Declining Support, Declining Use, Latest News, Wake County

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PLEASE sign our People of Faith Letter TODAY! Have PLEASE sign our People of Faith Letter TODAY! Have you signed our People of Faith letter yet? If you live in NC and identify as a person of faith, we invite you to add your voice to the thousands who are already joining us in calling for Governor Cooper to commute all NC death sentences!

Sign the letter at bit.ly/NCPeopleOfFaithLtr or at the link in our bio!

THERE IS ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT TO SIGN! Our goal is to reach 4300 signatures by September 28th. Please consider signing the letter if you have not already, and also share the letter with a few friends who you think might want to sign as well!

Make sure you do not miss your chance to join us in telling Governor Cooper #NoMoreDeathRow! 

#ncdeathrow #EndTheDeathPenalty #northcarolinadeathpenalty #ncpol #ncgov
A stray bullet killed her sister two decades ago i A stray bullet killed her sister two decades ago in New York. Shneaqua Purvis eventually became a gun violence interrupter, dedicating her life to preventing tragedies like the one that befell her family. That included counseling the man who fired the deadly shot. “I want my story to reflect my own work,” Purvis says, “I can’t just talk about it. I need to be about it.”

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Four medical supply manufacturers are refusing to Four medical supply manufacturers are refusing to sell their equipment for use in lethal injection executions. This limitation may further hamper the ability of states to carry out executions, as a multitude of pharmaceutical companies have already placed restrictions on selling their drugs to departments of correction. 

Among these manufacturers was Johnson & Johnson. Joshina Kapoor, a spokesperson for the company, said that Johnson & Johnson “develops medical innovations to save and enhance lives… We do not condone the use of our products for lethal injections in capital punishment.”

Link to full article in @theintercept in our bio!

#nomoredeathrow #ncdeathrow #EndTheDeathPenalty #northcarolinadeathpenalty #ncpol #ncgov
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