by Mandie Sellars | Oct 12, 2017 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
The Sixth Amendment of the United States guarantees the right to a speedy trial – Kharon Davis has not been granted that right. At age 22, he was charged with capital murder and put in the county jail. Ten years later, he is still there, awaiting trial. He has...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 20, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
It has been about one year since film director Ava DuVernay released the documentary “13th.” This documentary is widely available on Netflix. Today, as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to unfold and national politics have veered towards a...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 30, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
In a display of courage and commitment to justice, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens halted the execution of Marcellus Williams mere hours before he was scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. DNA testing raised questions about whether he had committed a murder during a...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 16, 2017 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Uncategorized
At the time this piece was published, four people had been arrested in Durham for allegedly taking down a Confederate statue. They allegedly broke the law. Now let’s talk about justice. History has painfully provided us with countless examples of how law and...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 16, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
By Amanda Witwer, UNC-Chapel Hill Public Policy Student Apart from being an avid reader and a devoted Tarheel fan, my pen pal is an inmate who has spent the last nineteen years of his life on North Carolina’s death row. Out of respect for his privacy, I will...
by Mandie Sellars | Aug 1, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
This month, Carolina Justice Policy Center Intern Olivia Pennoyer visited an inmate on death row. She documented her experience in an essay: This summer I met a man on death row. Usually when this fact finds its way into conversations with friends and family, they...
