Executions to Resume?

Published for NC Criminal Law on May 15, 2009.

Several developments this week week have brought North Carolina much closer to resuming executions. The last execution in the state took place in August 2006.  Since then, we’ve had a de facto moratorium, because of three related pieces of litigation. First, defense lawyers argued that lethal injection was a cruel and unusual method of execution. ... Read more

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