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President Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 people on federal death row. In this 2002 photo, prisoners on North Carolina’s death row make their way back to their cell block at Central ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of North Carolina.. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in North Carolina since 2006. A series of lawsuits filed in state courts questioning the fairness and humanity of capital punishment have created a de facto moratorium on executions being carried out in North Carolina.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. There have been a total of 43 executions in North Carolina, under the current statute, since it was adopted in 1977. All of the people executed were convicted of murder.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole, coinciding with New Year’s Eve and his final day in ...
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976
Perrella was arrested for alleged felony counts of death by vehicle and reckless driving, according to a Mecklenburg County Jail spokesman. Jail or Agency: Mecklenburg County; State: North Carolina; Date arrested or booked: 4/8/2014; Date of death: 5/10/2016; Age at death: 52; Sources: jail pio, death records, inmate records
The second brother charged with killing Wake County K-9 Deputy Ned Byrd will continue to be held without bail.
Defense attorneys still invoke the North Carolina Supreme Court's 1988 Hennis ruling to limit the presentation of redundant photographs that could unduly influence jurors. [ 2 ] Following Hennis' second retrial and acquittal in April 1989, the Wilmington -based Star-News journalist Scott Whisnant wrote a book looking at the Hennis trials called ...