Entries tagged with “Kenneth Rouse”

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…