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Firing squads proposed as death penalty option. Could executions resume in NC?
Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not ...
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California’s Death Row Inmates Experience Life after Newsom’s Moratorium
Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...
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N.C. Lawmakers Consider Bringing Back the Firing Squad
While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...
North Carolina bill proposes expanding execution options
A new bill in North Carolina could reshape how the state conducts executions, broadening the available methods and modifying procedures around inmate decision-making. House Bill 270, introduced by a ...
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NC House Republicans want to restart executions with electric chair, firing squad
A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...
NC Republicans look to bring back death penalty with electric chair and firing squad
On Tuesday, House Bill 270 moved to its next committee. The bill changes the go-to execution method from lethal injection to ...
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New bill could bring back death by firing squad option for NC death row inmates
North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three ...
Firing squads in North Carolina? Lawmakers seek to restart executions
A bill advancing in the state legislature Tuesday would allow people sentenced to death in North Carolina to choose between ...