Entries tagged with “Henderson Hill”
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
Race
,Jun 30, 2020
New Podcast: Henderson Hill and North Carolina’s Historic Racial Justice Act Rulings
In the June 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Henderson Hill (pictured), Senior Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project, speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act. Hill, who has spent decades as a public defender, capital defense attorney, and civil rights advocate, is currently representing North Carolina death-row prisoners in the…
Jun 26, 2020
Henderson Hill and the North Carolina Racial Justice Act
In the June 2020 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Henderson Hill (pictured), Senior Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project, speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act. Hill, who has spent decades as a public defender, capital defense attorney, and civil rights advocate, is currently representing North Carolina death-row prisoners in the Racial Justice Act litigation…