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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.
Samuel Russell Flippen (September 30, 1969 – August 18, 2006) [2] was an American man who was executed in North Carolina for murder. Flippen was sentenced to death for the February 1994 murder of Britnie Nichole Hutton, his 2-year-old stepdaughter. [3]
The second brother charged with killing Wake County K-9 Deputy Ned Byrd will continue to be held without bail. 2 NC brothers could face death penalty after being charged with murder of Wake deputy ...
Joseph Edward Corcoran (April 18, 1975 – December 18, 2024) was an American convicted mass murderer who was executed for a quadruple murder case in Indiana. Corcoran was found guilty of the 1997 murders of his brother, his sister's fiancé, and two of their friends at his house in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he was sentenced to death in 1999.
(The Center Square) – Following through on a pledge she made months ago, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg on Friday announced her office was seeking the death penalty in the prosecution ...
James William Hutchins (March 26, 1929 – March 16, 1984) was an American murderer who killed four people in two different states. He was charged with murdering a man in New Mexico in 1954, but was convicted of voluntary manslaughter after claiming self-defense.
A North Carolina father was arrested Monday after allegedly storming into a high school and choking a teenage student in a caught-on-video attack.