Links

Visit the following links for more information on the death penalty (both generally and as it is applied in North Carolina), as well as additional information on the moratorium.

North Carolina Sites:

• The ACLU of North Carolina
• Capital Restorative Justice Project
• Carolina Justice Policy Center
• Center for Death Penalty Litigation
• Charlotte Coalition for a Moratorium
• Common Sense Foundation
• Fair Trial Initiative
• Franciscan Coalition for Justice and Peace
• Murder Victim’s Families for Reconciliation
• North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
• The North Carolina Center for Actual Innocence
• North Carolina Court Office of Indigent Defense Services
• North Carolina Department of Correction
• People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
• Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice

  National/International Resources

• ABA’s Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
• Amnesty International
• The Constitution Project’s Death Penalty Initiative
• Death Penalty Information Center 
• Murder Victim’s Families for Human Rights
• Murder Victim’s Families for Reconciliation
• National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

• World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

   

  Research and Reports:

• Common Sense Foundation Report on the Inadequate Legal Representation of North Carolina’s Death Row Inmates
• UNC-Chapel Hill Study: “Race and the Death Penalty: An Empirical Analysis” (pdf)
• Columbia University Law School Study: “A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995”
• “On the Front Line: Law Enforcement Views on the Death Penalty”
• Duke University Study: "The Cost of Processing Murder Cases in North Carolina"
•  NC Office of Indigent Defense Services Study: "FY07 Capital Trial Case Study: PAC and Expert Spending in Potentially Capital Cases at the Trial Level