Entries tagged with “Center for Death Penalty Litigation — North Carolina”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Sentencing Data
,Oct 16, 2018
73% of North Carolina’s Death Row Sentenced Under Obsolete Laws, New Report Says
Most of the 142 prisoners on North Carolina’s death row were convicted under obsolete and outdated death-penalty laws and would not have been sentenced to death if tried today, according to a new report by the Center for Death Penalty Litigation. The report by the Durham-based defense organization, titled Unequal Justice: How Obsolete Laws and Unfair Trials Created North Carolina’s Outsized Death Row, says that nearly three-quarters of the prisoners…
Policy Issues
Race
,History of the Death Penalty
,Oct 07, 2020
Groundbreaking ‘Racist Roots’ Project Exposes Racism Endemic in North Carolina’s Death Penalty
North Carolina’s death penalty is a weapon of social control rooted in a racist past. That is the message of a groundbreaking new collaborative project, Racist Roots: Origins of North Carolina’s Death Penalty, by the Durham-based defense organization Center for Death Penalty Litigation…
Policy Issues
Costs
,Innocence
,Jun 22, 2015
STUDY: “The Hidden Costs of Wrongful Capital Prosecutions in North Carolina”
A new study by North Carolina’s Center for Death Penalty Litigation examines the financial and human costs of cases in which, “prosecutors sought the death penalty despite a clear lack of evidence, resulting in acquittal or dismissal of…