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The 30-year club: Wave of exonerations for U.S.’s longest-serving death row...
Henry McCollum – Photo by Jenny Warburg We would like to think that Henry McCollum and Leon Brown are unique. Surely, it is unusual for blameless men to be sentenced to death and imprisoned for 30...
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Reasonable doubt: N.C. says 900 convictions based on bad evidence
This week, buried in a Charlotte Observer editorial, was a surprising admission: The N.C. Commission on Actual Innocence is reexamining 900 convictions in which the State Bureau of Investigation may...
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N.C. legislature’s death penalty plan: Remove safeguards, add secrecy, ignore...
A few months ago, the world watched as Henry McCollum was declared innocent after 30 years on North Carolina’s death row. Now, N.C. lawmakers say we need to hurry up and execute people. The idea defies...
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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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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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One year after N.C.’s most shocking exoneration: What have we learned?
Henry McCollum on the day of his exoneration.Photo by Jenny Warburg One year ago today, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were declared innocent in a Robeson County courtroom. It was a case like North...
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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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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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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...
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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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...
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N.C. legislature’s death penalty plan: Remove safeguards, add secrecy, ignore...
A few months ago, the world watched as Henry McCollum was declared innocent after 30 years on North Carolina’s death row. Now, N.C. lawmakers say we need to hurry up and execute people. The idea defies...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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...
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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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