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Effective reporting on the decline of death in North Carolina

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article, headlined "In N.C., death penalty gets rarer," provides a very effective accounting of the slow and steady decline of the death penalty in North Carolina.  Here are highlights of an article that should be a must-read for everyone who seriously follows the administration of capital punishment: North Carolina will finish this year with just one defendant sentenced to death, a record low since the penalty was reinstated 31 years ago. The single capital murder conviction this year continues a downward trend fueled by better criminal defense lawyers and new laws that exclude the mentally challenged and make prosecution evidence more accessible. In North Carolina, more people on death row have been exonerated this year -- two -- than were sentenced to death...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).