Conservatives calling to end death penalty
There is a new wing of the anti-death penalty movement — and it’s probably not what you expect. Conservatives, both in North Carolina and nationally, have begun taking a public stand for ending...
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Another state walks away from death penalty
“Without a definitive judicial ruling or other galvanizing event, a perennial American argument is ending. Capital punishment is withering away.” —Conservative Columnist George Will in the Washington...
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Death penalty’s demise: Conservative Nebraska votes to repeal
This week, the seventh state since 2007 voted to repeal the death penalty. And this time, it was one of the most conservative states in the U.S. — Nebraska. This is just one more sign that the death...
View ArticleFormer AG who sent inmates to execution: ‘I’m about to change my mind’ on the...
As N.C. Attorney General from 1974 to 1984, Rufus Edmisten says he may have put more people on death row than any other attorney general in North Carolina’s history. Now, he’s no longer sure he...
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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 longtime 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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Gaston DA says he’s done with death penalty
Gaston County District Attorney Locke Bell Even the death penalty’s biggest supporters are beginning to see its waste and inefficacy. Last week, as North Carolina neared a decade without an execution,...
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