by Mandie Sellars | May 9, 2018 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
On April 26, 2018, The Equal Justice Initiative opened the Memorial for Peace and Justice. It also opened the Legacy Museum, which tells the stories of the over 4,000 people killed by racial terror lynchings in the century after the Civil War. The museum highlights...
by Mandie Sellars | May 1, 2018 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
The University of Virginia School of Law has created a new online resource that allows users to explore death penalty practices in the United States from 1991 to 2017. The resource consists of an interactive map that provides data about the number of death sentences...
by Mandie Sellars | Apr 10, 2018 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
The American Bar Association has created a new web resource devoted to the clemency process in death penalty cases. The resource, called the Capital Clemency Resource Initiative Clearinghouse, is the result of a collaboration between the ABA Death Penalty...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 30, 2018 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
While prosecutors have a large amount of discretion in their work, they are not permitted to hide evidence that could be exculpatory for a defendant. In a recent Colorado case, prosecutors possessed two reports that that pointed to other suspects since the beginning...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 30, 2018 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
On Wednesday, a Wake County jury sentenced Donovan Richardson to life in prison for his role in a 2014 double murder. He is one of three men accused in the crime of murdering two elderly men at their home in Fuquay Varina. One of the other men pleaded guilty and will...
by Mandie Sellars | Oct 12, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
The US Supreme Court issued Georgia death row inmate Keith Tharpe a stay of execution last week because of racial bias from a juror who sentenced him back in 1990 for the murder of his sister-in-law, Jacquelin Freeman. The justices granted him the stay while they...
