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  • Faith & the Death Penalty

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    Virtual

    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.

  • Fall Coalition Meeting

    Virtual

    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 […]

  • JUST MERCY Screening at the CHELSEA THEATER

    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

    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.” […]