Where does nc stand on brining back death penalty?

Why? They don't waste enough of the taxpayer money now? You want them to waste more money by having the death penalty?

- The death penalty costs the state many times more money than a life sentence does. And a life sentence accomplishes the same thing - removes the person from society. A capital case is a lot more to try, and once convicted, the person becomes a ward of the state, and the state pays for all the appeals.

- The death penalty is not a deterrent, and in most places that have it, they actually have a HIGHER crime rate than areas that don't.

- There is no recourse if a person is wrongfully executed, except for a huge lawsuit from the family for wrongful death. So that would be even more cost on top of everything else.

- What kind of justice is it when you have to resort to lowering yourself to the convicted person's level to get your justice? Is that really justice at all, or more vengeance?

"Monsters" like Joseph Abbit, who served 14 years in prison for the violent knifepoint rape of 11 and 13 year old sisters in Winston-Salem before the rape kit that the police had concealed was found, and DNA testing proved him to be innocent? He was convicted because the sisters identified him from a photo line-up - after the police pointed him out to them and told them he was the man who raped them. The DNA testing identified the real rapist as a serial rapist who committed several other child rapes while Abbit was in prison.

Or maybe a "monster" like Dwayne Dail, who served 18 years in prison for raping a 12 year old girl before the girls nightgown, which the police claimed had been destroyed (NC law allows the police to destroy evidence as soon as someone is convicted), was found, and the semen on it proved not to be Dails. Again, the conviction was based on the child victims identification of Dail at a line-up. After he was proven innocent she, too, admitted that she picked him out of the line-up because police showed her his picture ahead of time and identified him as the rapist.

Or perhaps you mean a 'monster' like Darryl Hunt, who served 19 years for the rape and murder of a woman in Winston-Salem before post-conviction DNA testing not only exonerated him, but identified the actual killer - who it turned out had committed two other rapes, one of which ended in murder, while Hunt was in prison. The main witness against hunt was his ex-girlfriend, whom the police granted immunity from several criminal charges she was facing in return for her testimony against Hunt.

NC is in the top five States in America for wrongful convictions caused by deliberate police/prosecutor misconduct. Innocent people in NC have, between them, served nearly 300 years in prison before being exonerated of crimes that the cops 'railroaded' them for. No way should a State THAT corrupt be executing people when they convict so many innocents.

Richard