by Dawn Blagrove | Aug 1, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
This month, Carolina Justice Policy Center Intern Olivia Pennoyer visited an inmate on death row. She documented her experience in an essay: This summer I met a man on death row. Usually when this fact finds its way into conversations with friends and family, they...
by Dawn Blagrove | Aug 1, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
On July 26, 2017, the state of Ohio executed Ronald Phillips. This execution marked the first after a three and a half year moratorium. It is yet another example of why death penalty moratoriums should not lull activists into a false sense of complacency. To learn...
by Dawn Blagrove | Jun 19, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
In a recent article printed in the Washington Post, former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson explains why although he carried out the death penalty as Governor, he now opposes it. Some of the reasons he cited include the failure to serve as a deterrent, the...
by Dawn Blagrove | Jun 7, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
Four Inmates in Cumberland County have asked that the state Supreme Court reconsider the illegal effect of racism in their trials. They had previously used the North Carolina Racial Justice act to do so, but it was repealed in 2013. Some of the arguments in their two...
by Dawn Blagrove | Jun 7, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
In an article written by Gretchen Engle, Executive Director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, Engle deconstructs the myth that the death penalty punishes the “worst of the worst” offenders. The article explains that instead, death sentences are...
by Dawn Blagrove | Jun 7, 2017 | CJPC News, Ending the Death Penalty
A man in Florida who was facing two death sentences has been exonerated. Ralph Daniel Wright Jr., a former sergeant, had been previously convicted of murdering his lover and their 15-month-old child in 2007. The Florida Supreme Court held that the evidence was...
