With just a few months left in Gov. Cooper’s term, we are ramping up our call for him to commute all of North Carolina’s death sentences to prison terms. As we count down the final weeks of the campaign, your presence is needed more than ever.
Please join us at 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 18 at Church on Morgan in downtown Raleigh for our event marking the 18th anniversary of NC’s last execution, Time’s Running Out: Commute Death Row! Find all the info and register here.
Whether you’ve been with us at every event or are joining us for the first time, we can’t tell you how much your support matters. We must show the governor that a strong and growing group of North Carolinians want him to take action and ensure no more executions in our names.
It promises to be a moving and energizing afternoon with some very special guests. Our featured speaker is Rev. Sharon Risher of Charlotte, who lost several family members including her mother in the massacre at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. We’ll also get to enjoy live performances from North Carolina musician Britton Buchanan, who was a runner-up on The Voice and will debut a new song written just for this event, and spoken word poet Nick Courmon, who will also debut a new piece. As always, we will be joined by North Carolina death row exonerees and people who have lost loved ones to homicide and to execution.
After the program, we will walk three short blocks to the Governor’s Mansion and make a personal appeal to the governor to end death row. Only bold moral leadership, with the support of committed people like you, can stop North Carolina from returning to the dark days of executions.
