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"Facing up to fiction," is the OpEd in today's Raleigh News & Observer.  It's written by Seth Kotch, a historian at UNC - Chapel Hill.A recent news report observed that North Carolina had reached a remarkable milestone: Just one person received a death sentence here in 2008, and no one was executed at Central Prison.And yet our state reached a nearly similar milestone nearly 50 years ago. In 1961 just one execution took place, and for the next 20 years the death chamber remained dormant. Now, for the second time, North Carolinians' ambivalence about the death penalty has pushed execution out of use.That ambivalence has persisted at least since the beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1940s, North Carolina's capital punishment law was among the harshest in the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 15, 2009 (boomark / email).