It has been an exceptional year for life in North Carolina. No one was executed, and only one new person was added to death row (the lowest number since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977). This year, as many capital defendants were acquitted as were sentenced to death. More death row inmates were exonerated than executed. North Carolina should be proud.
It has been an exceptional year for life in North Carolina. No one was executed, and only one new person was added to death row - the lowest number since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. This year, as many capital defendants were acquitted as were sentenced to death. More death row inmates were exonerated than executed. North Carolina should be proud.
Nationally, executions began again following the Supreme Court's decision in Baze v. Rees, but lethal injection remains stalled in North Carolina due to litigation by inmates subject to the procedure as well as the doctors forced to participate in it.
Capital Trial Statistics
Life without parole - 9 (Kenneth Hartley, Charles Dickerson, Eric Oakes, Jakiem Wilson, James Stitt, Robert Windsor, Lisa Greene, Neil Sargeant, James Blue)
Sentences less than life - 3 (Pliney Purser, Jonte McLaurin, John Chavis Ross)
Death - 1 (James Ray Little)
Military capital trial acquittals – 1 (Alberto Martinez)
Post-Conviction Statistics
Executions – 0
Exonerations – 2 (Levon "Bo" Jones, Glen Edward Chapman)
Death row inmates getting new trials – 2 (John Conaway, William Moore)
Death row inmates getting new sentencing hearings – 1 (William Gray)
Otherwise removed from death row – 2 (Clinton Smith, Carlos Cannady)
Incompetent for execution – 1 (Guy LeGrande)
Deaths from natural causes – 3 (Gary Greene, Leroy McNeill, George Page)