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N.C. moves to suspend death penalty

Published Jun 11, 2005 5:03 PM

The House Judicial Committee passed a bill May 31 that would suspend executions in North Carolina for two years while the state studies the capital punishment system. This moved the bill, HB 529, to the floor of the House for a vote, which was delayed. The state Senate passed a similar bill during the 2003-2004 legislature and will not consider it again until the House passes the bill.

Former prisoners Alan Gell and Darryl Hunt testified at North Carolina House of Representatives Judicial Committee proceedings in Raleigh. Gell and Hunt spent nine and 18 years respectively in North Carolina prisons for crimes they did not commit before being exonerated.

Anti-death penalty advocates have been working for six years to ban capital punishment in the state and vowed to keep the pressure on. They point out that problems with the death penalty in North Carolina have included hidden evidence, racial bias and incompetent defense lawyers.