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

Organizational Websites:

• Death Penalty Information Center
• North Carolina Department of Correction
• ABA’s Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project
• The Constitution Project’s Death Penalty Initiative
• North Carolina Moratorium Now!
• Charlotte Coalition for a Moratorium
• North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
• Fair Trial Initiative

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”
• Duke University Study: “The Cost of Processing Murder Cases in North Carolina ” (pdf)
• “On the Front Line: Law Enforcement Views on the Death Penalty”
• Constitution Project Report: “Mandatory Justice: 18 Reforms to the Death Penalty” (pdf)