NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Committed to ending the death penalty and creating a new vision of justice
Join us for an online panel featuring Muslim scholars and a Muslim man living on NC's death row. Hosted by NCCADP, this conversation is co-sponsored by the Center for Death Penalty Litigation and the NC Muslim Bar Association. CLE credit is pending. Click the button to register.
Join NCCADP director Noel Nickle for a 1-hour online session to learn about the state of the death penalty in NC, the work of the Coalition, and how you can be involved in the movement. If you're interested in volunteering, this is the place to start.
Join NCCADP director Noel Nickle for a 1-hour online session to learn about the state of the death penalty in NC, the work of the Coalition, and how you can be involved in the movement. If you're interested in volunteering, this is the place to start.
The Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition presents this powerful event featuring narratives from Right Here, Right Now: Stories from America's Death Row and music by the band Good Boy. It will also include a community discussion on revisioning justice with panelists Jon Powell, director of the Restorative Justice Clinic at Campbell University; Lynden Harris, founder […]
Join NCCADP director Noel Nickle for a 1-hour online session to learn about the state of the death penalty in NC, the work of the Coalition, and how you can be involved in the movement. If you're interested in volunteering, this is the place to start.
Join us for our quarterly Coalition meeting. We will share the latest updates on the NC death penalty — lots is happening! — and the Coalition's organizing work. And we always save time for networking and meeting each other.
On October 10, to mark the 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty, we are partnering with the NC Council of Churches to host a panel of voices with lived experience to discuss faith and the death penalty. Panelists include George Wilkerson, who is living on NC’s death row; Andre Smith, who teaches Buddhism to men in prison and lost his son to homicide; and Rev. Sharon Risher, who lost her mother and two cousins in the shooting at Mother Emmanuel AME church in Charleston. Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, noted writer and leader in the Red Letter Christian movement and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, will moderate.
All are invited to join our quarterly meetings. Our focus for the fall meeting was the upcoming Racial Justice Act (RJA) case of Hasan Bacote in Johnston County, which we hope will pave the way for death-sentenced people across North Carolina to bring forward evidence of racism in their cases. Center for Death Penalty Litigation […]
Join us this Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 20th at 6:30pm for a special screening of Just Mercy (trailer) at the Chelsea Theater in Chapel Hill–and stay for a post-film conversation with the Coalition. Proceeds of this screening will go to support the work of NCCADP. Speakers include NCCADP director Emily Baxter and […]
In Focus: Injustice in America is a collection of portraits from six photography projects focused on the U.S. criminal legal system, beginning and ending with North Carolina’s death row. Our nation’s concept of justice has its roots sunk deep into soil fertilized by racism, white supremacy, and the dehumanization, demonization, and dismissal of the “other.” […]
