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1661
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David Lawson is scheduled to be executed in Raleigh's Central Prison on June 15. Central Prison Warden Gary Ward explains the step-by-step procedure for executing a condemned prisoner.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 24, June 1994, p8, il Periodical Website
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Earl Richmond, Jr. was convicted of the murder of a mother and her two children in Cumberland County in 1991 and sentenced to death. Richmond was executed in May 2005. O'Neill describes the last days of Richmond and how he had become a changed man during his stay on death row.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 22 Issue 18, May 2005, p15 Periodical Website
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9301
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On December 18, 1891, Carolina Shipp was hanged near Dallas in Gaston County. She was the last woman executed on the gallows in North Carolina. Her death was unpleasant and grave robbers exhumed her body the night it was buried. Shipp was accused of killing her baby, but maintained that her boyfriend, Mack Farrar, was the guilty one.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 47 Issue 9, Feb 1980, p25-26, il
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9946
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Francis Silvers, also known as Frankie, was convicted of killing her husband Charlie Silvers and executed on July 12, 1833 in Morganton, making her the only white woman ever hanged in North Carolina. Despite initial claims of innocence, Frankie Silvers eventually admitted to killing her husband with an axe, dismembering his body, and burning the pieces in the fireplace of their Burke (now Mitchell) County cabin. Always a prime subject for folklore writers, the latest offering on the Frankie Silvers saga is a 60-page booklet by Maxine McCall titled “They Won't Hang a White Woman”, prepared in conjunction with the Burke County Cultural Heritage Project, ESEA (Elementary Secondary Education Act) Title III.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 16, Feb 1973, p18-19, 43
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12677
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In 1793, the first sentence of death imposed by a federal court in the United States was passed at New Bern. Sentenced to death for mutiny on the high seas off Ocracoke Island, four sailors were ordered to be hung until dead. Shortly after passing Tybee Bar, two Frenchmen, two Englishmen, an Irishman, and an American conspired to murder the master and mate and take the ship to a northern European port.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 29 Issue 6, Aug 1961, p15, 17
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15373
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After July 1 1935, the state's criminals sentenced to death received lethal injection rather than the being sent to the electric chair. Henry Spivey was the last convict hanged near Abbottsburg on March 11, 1910. The day before, Walter Morrison was the first man to be electrocuted. Twenty-five years of electrocutions left 150 men dead, 120 were African-American. North Carolina's adoption of lethal injection in 1935 made it only the fourth state to switch.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 3 Issue 5, June 1935, p20
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15788
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The fate of the landmark Racial Justice Act, the 2009 law to stop executions in capital cases in which the death sentence resulted from racial bias is in the hands of North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue.
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Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 28 Issue 48, Sept 2011, p9, 11, il Periodical Website
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When the 1973 North Carolina General Assembly convened in January it was faced with a U.S. Supreme Court decision that raised doubts about the constitutionality of North Carolina's capital punishment statutes. The problem lay in allowing juries discretion to choose between life imprisonment and death for the same crime. Ultimately, the jury's option to recommend life imprisonment was removed, leaving mandatory death penalties for first-degree murder, arson, rape, and first-degree burglary.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 39 Issue 9, June 1973, p30-38
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18317
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Perhaps the most important and certainly the most talked about decision of the United State Supreme court was its approval of the death penalty for murder in the statutes of Georgia, Florida, and Texas, and disapproval of it under the laws of North Carolina and Louisiana. This article summarizes the Court's reasons for its decisions and to outline the North Carolina General Assembly's limited options if it wants to restore capital punishment.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 42 Issue 3, Winter 1977, p2-5, 14, f
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19450
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Ten years ago Paul wrote a letter to The State magazine urging that the electric chair be scrapped and replaced with the gallows. There were a number of protests stating that hanging was barbaric. Since then the State did away with the electric chair and replaced it with the gas chamber. In this article Paul argues for public hangings as an effective method for reducing the number of capital offenses in North Carolina.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 12 Issue 6, July 1944, p1, 16
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21662
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This article examines the 1936 execution of Allen Foster, the first inmate in North Carolina to die in the gas chamber. Previously, the state had used electrocution for capital punishment but the press reported negatively on the practice while churches and other groups asked for a different method. Foster's execution and several following executions did not go well, and there was another public clamor against the use of gas. While the debate continued, North Carolina used both methods for many years. Lethal use of gas was not legally ended in North Carolina until 1999.
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28829
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In North Carolina, a de facto moratorium has been in place for more than ten years, but people are still being sentenced to death. In the political debate over the death penalty, the cost of capital punishment is a financial burden on the state.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 43, Nov 2016, p14-17, il, por Periodical Website
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