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More From Frank Baumgartner on the North Carolina Death Penalty

By Steve Hall

Today's Charlotte Observer carries the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill political science professor's OpEd, "In N.C., only 20 percent of condemned are executed."  Here's an extended excerpt from Baumgartner's OpEd: To the litany of woes facing North Carolina's death penalty system, let us add a new one: 69 percent of those sentenced to death were determined by the courts to have been given excessive sentences. Only 20 percent of those sentenced to death were actually executed.In this time of debate about costs and the possibility of executing the innocent, it's important to pay attention to the details of how the death penalty is administered. The Department of Correction's Website provides a list of all those sentenced to death in the state since 1977, and what it reveals is quite shocking...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).