Victim Outreach
Our Mission
The mission of the Capital Restorative Justice Project is to promote healing and nonviolent responses within North Carolina communities torn apart by capital murder and executions.
Restorative Justice
"Restorative justice is fundamentally different from retributive justice. It is justice
that puts energy into the future, not into what is past. It focuses on what needs to
be healed, what needs to be repaid, what needs to be learned in the wake of crime.
It looks at what needs to be strengthened if such things are not to happen
again."
Susan Sharpe, Restorative Justice: A Vision for Healing and Change, 1998A
central principle of the CRJP is that a murder is not simply a crime against the
state, but rather, is fundamentally a crime against a family and a community of
people. As a corollary, executions only perpetuate trauma and produce new victims
of violence.
Mailing Address:
Attn: The Capital Restorative Justice Project
Watts Street Baptist Church
800 Watts Street
Durham, NC 27701
Physical Address
First Presbyterian Church
305 E Main St
Durham, NC 27701
Email Address: info@capitalrestorativejustice.org
To support the coordinated national efforts to abolish the death penalty, MVFR:
° recruits, trains, prepares and mobilizes victims to get involved in jurisdictional campaigns;
° develops strategy with other state-focused death penalty abolition groups;
° testifies before legislatures and empowers other family members to testify;
° forms alliances with other victims’ groups;
° works with policymakers, prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement, media and victims advocates to support alternatives to the death penalty and
° increases awareness of the needs and voices of victims’ family members.
John P. Comer
State Coordinator
919.215.0714 (c)
919.956.5900 (o)
115 Market St. Suite 204 H
Durham, NC 27701
www.mvfr.org
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