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Time’s Running Out! Join us Aug. 18 to demand an end to death row

August 12, 2024

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.

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Ten years ago today, nine Black worshippers were m Ten years ago today, nine Black worshippers were murdered during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Ten years. A measure of time that cannot touch the grief or honor the grace of those left behind.

We remember the names of those whose lives were taken: Cynthia Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Rev. Clementa Pickney, Tywanza Sanders, Rev. Daniel Simmons, Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, and Myra Thompson.

Among those grieving is our friend and fierce partner in this work, Rev. Sharon Risher, who lost family and friends on that day. In the decade since, Rev. Risher has spoken the unspeakable aloud on stages, in sanctuaries, and on pages inked with her truth. Her book, For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness after the Charleston Massacre, does not simplify the complexity of grief or forgiveness. Instead, she invites us to hold them both, trembling, in our hands.

Last year, Rev. Risher joined us in North Carolina and offered a living example of how to walk through fire and still find language for love. She continues to teach us what it means to mourn collectively, to resist hate, to believe that justice without compassion is incomplete. Rev. Risher is a powerful advocate for gun violence prevention and abolishing the death penalty.

This piece from USA Today traces what ten years have – and haven’t – changed (link also in bio): https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/16/charleston-black-church-emanuel-massacre-anniversary/84186073007/?fbclid

Today we honor the lives lost, the families forever changed, and the communities that carry their memory. And we give thanks for people like Rev. Risher, who show us again and again that remembrance is a sacred act and love is a kind of protest too.

(Photos of Rev. Risher speaking at last year’s NCCADP commemoration of 18 years since North Carolina’s last execution.)
🏳️‍🌈 This Pride Month (and always), we'r 🏳️‍🌈 This Pride Month (and always), we're telling it like it is: the death penalty targets LGBTQ+ people.

In courtrooms, LGBTQ+ identity can be twisted into a weapon and used against defendants. In prisons, gender identity is ignored and essential care denied.

Swipe through to learn more and read our full blog post to see how these issues show up in North Carolina and why there is no justice in a system that punishes people for who they are. Then join us in building a future rooted in dignity, humanity, equity, and life.

📖 Link in bio to read.

#PrideMonth #LGBTQJustice #EndTheDeathPenalty #NCCADP #TransRights #JusticeForAll #NoMoreDeathRow #AbolitionNow
Last night, the State of South Carolina executed S Last night, the State of South Carolina executed Stephen Stanko.

We hold in our hearts everyone impacted by this loss of life and all who carry the weight of this system.

No execution brings healing, and no act of violence can create true justice.

#NoMoreDeathRow #CarolinasUnited #EndTheDeathPenalty
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