A recently released Gallup poll shows that Republican support for the death penalty has dropped in the US. As Townhall Magazine reports, Republican support for the death penalty has dropped 9 points since Gallup first asked the question 20 years ago. Even more significantly, Republican support has dropped 5% in just the last year. Many […]
Archives for October 2014
Crime rate continues decline in NC despite hold on executions
Historically, many conservatives have supported the death penalty based on a belief that capital punishment prevents future crime. The reality is that no credible evidence exists to support the claim that the death penalty deters murder. In fact, states that have the death penalty have a higher murder rate than states that do not. In […]
NC Retired Police Chief talks about the death penalty on WEEB radio
The public generally assumes that all members of law enforcement wholeheartedly support the death penalty. Reports from the Death Penalty Information Center dispute this claim as nationally, police chiefs rank the death penalty as the least effective priority for fighting crime. NC Retired Police Chief Gerald Galloway joined Talk Radio 990 WEEB to […]
NCCCADP on WPTF – Exoneration of Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
NC Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty are speaking out all over NC! In October, Josh Zach of WPTF radio interviewed Vernetta Alston with the Center for Death Penalty Litigation and Ballard Everett with North Carolina Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, on the release of Henry McCollum after he spent 30 years on death row. The […]