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for The State Vol. 3 Issue 5, June 1935
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Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Sir Richard Everard was the 19th governor of colonial North Carolina, 1725-1731. Two major events marked his administration--the sale of the rights in the colony by seven of the eight Lords Proprietors to the King of England and the establishment of the North Carolina-Virginia boundary.