Over the last few years, many leaders of the conservative movement in our state and country have come forward to express their concerns about the death penalty. On April 15, Conservative Icon Richard Viguerie penned an editorial to NewsOK in Oklahoma citing his explanation of why the death penalty is inconsistent with conservative values. Viguerie […]
The tides are changing when it comes to conservatives and the death penalty…
There was a time when conservatives either all supported the death penalty, or were quiet in their opposition. But that time has passed. Slowly but surely over the past decade, more and more conservatives have begun voicing concern over capital punishment, the nation’s worst example of an inefficient and poorly run government program. The pinnacle […]
NC Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty Opposes Efforts to Eliminate Transparency in Executions
Last night, the Senate passed House Bill 774 “Restoring Proper Justice Act,” legislation aimed at making secret all aspects of the way in which our state executes individuals. NC Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty opposes the bill. “While some people hope this legislation will jump start executions, this bill will actually delay executions for […]
NC Conservatives Leaders Should Follow Historic Lead by Nebraska and Replace Capital Punishment with Life in Prison without Parole
North Carolina Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty Raleigh – Last week, a bill to repeal the death penalty in the politically conservative state of Nebraska passed its third and final vote in the state’s unicameral legislature by a margin of 32-15. The bill then made it’s way to Governor Ricketts, who kept his […]
NC Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty Applauds Landmark Effort to Replace Death Penalty in Conservative Nebraska
This week, the Nebraska State Legislature voted 32-12 to repeal the death penalty and replace it with life in prison without parole. This makes Nebraska the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since North Dakota did so in 1973. Nebraska Senator Laure Ebke, who is a Republican, said, “It’s certainly a matter of […]
Nationwide, Republican support for the death penalty continues to decline
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 […]
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 […]