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Another innocent person is exonerated after falsely confessing. Here’s how...
This week, James Blackmon was freed after 35 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. He was convicted in Wake County, based on his own false confession — which police dragged out of him after...
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Charles Finch is 10th innocent man freed after being sentenced to death in...
Charles Ray Finch is wheeled out of prison after more than four decades of wrongful incarceration Charles Ray Finch was released from prison last week, 43 years after he was sentenced to death for a...
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New day in North Carolina: Poll shows majority of voters no longer support...
For generations, North Carolina politicians of both parties have had one thing in common: Almost all of them staunchly supported the death penalty. That’s largely because they believed their voters...
View ArticleWhy most of N.C.’s death row inmates never should have gotten the death penalty
After 12 years without an execution, many people believe the North Carolina death penalty is dead. That might be true — if it weren’t for the more than 140 people still on death row. Our state...
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Jurors sent an innocent man to death row. Now they ask: “Where did we go wrong?”
Originally published in the News & Observer By Kristin Collins Henry McCollum, moments after his exoneration. ©Jenny Warburg One elderly woman sat with us in her living room, wearing a pink...
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Time to move on: Calls for death penalty fall flat in N.C.
Time to shelve the outdated death penalty rhetoric Maybe you heard that N.C. legislative leaders called last week for executions to return to North Carolina. It’s one of the oldest political tricks in...
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Why North Carolina’s death penalty is not for the “worst of the worst”
By Gretchen M. Engel Reposted from the blog of N.C. Policy Watch Our justice system said Henry McCollum was the “worst of the worst.” Then, we found out he was innocent. Photo by Jenny Warburg Since...
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For North Carolina, Arkansas executions are a call to action
Ledell Lee just before his execution in Arkansas. Not long ago, Arkansas was much like North Carolina. It hadn’t executed a death row inmate in more than a decade, and the death penalty appeared to be...
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As N.C. death penalty fades, death row becomes “costly warehouse for the...
N.C.’s execution chamber went unused for a tenth year in 2016 As 2016 comes to an end, the death penalty has become little more than a charade in North Carolina. The state passed the decade mark with...
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In life and death, N.C. courtroom corruption threatens the innocent
Darryl Howard hugs his attorney, Barry Scheck, after being exonerated. Photo: Sameer Abdel-Khalek via the Innocence Project “Thank God this wasn’t a capital case,” Barry Scheck said as his client,...
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N.C. passes a decade without executions
Today is a somber anniversary in North Carolina. The last execution carried out in our state was on this day 10 years ago. At 2:11 a.m. on Aug. 18, 2006, Samuel Flippen was the last prisoner to die by...
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NC “deadliest prosecutor” valued winning over justice, new report shows
Joe Freeman Britt in his heyday When Joe Freeman Britt died in April, his local newspaper lauded him as a hero. The paper remembered Britt as a towering ex-prosecutor who won at least 38 death...
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Former N.C. Chief Justice: I have lost faith in the death penalty
Former Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake This week, I. Beverly Lake, a lifelong Republican and the former chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court, told the world that he believes the death penalty is...
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Remembering our friend Darryl Hunt
Darryl Hunt, who died March 13, was a long-time employee of the N.C. Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and a tireless warrior in the fight to end North Carolina’s death penalty. Tarrah...
View ArticleWeak evidence sends innocents to prison, or death
Video courtesy of The News & Observer Yesterday, Howard Dudley was exonerated after serving 23 years for a crime he never committed — sexually abusing his daughter. Dudley was convicted and...
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Exonerations set record pace in 2015
Joseph Sledge, who spent 37 years in prison, was one of five people exonerated in N.C. in 2015 The harder we look, the more evident it becomes: Our criminal justice system cannot be trusted to get it...
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Let’s punish lawyers who put innocent people in prison, instead of those who...
Chris Mumma with Joseph Sledge on the day of his exoneration. Joseph Sledge spent 37 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. At his trial, the state paid a lying snitch to testify against him....
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Death penalty use reaches historic lows in 2015
The 2015 numbers are in, and the trend is clear: The death penalty is dying. In North Carolina, juries did not impose a single new death sentence this year. It was the second year since 2012 that no...
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New report: Reckless use of death penalty in N.C. threatens the innocent
Click to read the full report. We need the death penalty to punish the “worst of the worst,” right? The terrorists and serial killers? Isn’t that what death penalty advocates always tell us? What if we...
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The next “right thing” for McCrory: Halt executions
Finally! Ten months after a judge declared them innocent, Gov. Pat McCrory has acknowledged what we already knew — Henry McCollum and Leon Brown are innocent of the crime for which they were sentenced...
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