Yet there are great gaps and increasing signs of want. Approximately 3,625 are on death row. Thirty-eight states still have the death penalty. It is known that extreme inequities exist in the system. His freedom was won because of the work of some journalism students.
Racism is known to play a big part in a preponderance of the cases.
With this data, we we will be able to determine whethyer the death penalty in this State has operated free of racial discrimination, or instead, whether race continues to play an impermissible role in determining who lives and who dies. The death penalty is the last act of racism. When he or she is dead there is nothing else racists can do to hurt or harm or hassle. Through one of our resolutions at this convention we have joined 154 other organizations, churches, political groups and the 12 municipalities in North Carolina who have voiced their support for a moratorium on the death penalty. The speaker of the State House of Representatives Jim Black has stated that the moratorium will be on the agenda this year.