by Mandie Sellars | Feb 15, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
Phillip Davis was resentenced from a death sentence to life without the possibility of parole, reducing the number of active inmates on North Carolina’s death row to 148. We previously reported on Phillip’s hearing here. The final decision was issued last...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 30, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
Judge Erwin Spainhour ruled on Jan. 25th that four prisoners in 2012 who were granted relief based on the Racial Justice Act could no longer use the RJA to appeal their re-sentencing from life to death. Judge Spainhour’s decision will be appealed. The RJA was...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 25, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
Dylan Roof was sentenced to death on January 11 for the murder of 9 parishioners during Bible study at Mother Emanuel Baptist Church. Roof was sentenced for crimes that caused untold suffering to the nine families of those at Mother Emanuel, the surviving victims and...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 25, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
An article entitled These Lives Matter, Those Ones Don’t: Comparing Execution Rates by the Race and Gender of the Victim in the US and in the Top Death Penalty States, recently published in the Albany Law Review, tackles data on how the race of a victim impacts...
by Mandie Sellars | Nov 23, 2016 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
There were important referendums on the death penalty on the ballot in several states on November 9th. Despite some of these setbacks, actual executions and support for the death penalty continue to be on a downward trend. Oklahoma amended its State Constitution to...
by Mandie Sellars | Nov 5, 2016 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
In 1997, Phillip Davis, who was an 18 year old, with a borderline intellectual capacity, entered a guilty plea to two counts of murder. The state sought the death penalty and prepared to pick a jury it could convince that Phillip should die for his crimes. While...
