The Center for Death Penalty Litigation is a non-profit law firm that represents people on North Carolina's death row and serves as a clearinghouse for accurate and timely information about the North Carolina death penalty. Our attorneys also offer their expertise to represent some non-capital clients in North Carolina.
CDPL's commitment to representing indigent and disadvantaged defendants just as vigorously as corporate lawyers defend their highest-paying clients has saved the lives of many who faced execution. CDPL's longstanding credibility with decision-makers, the public, and the media has made us the primary source of information on capital punishment in the state.
CDPL's commitment to representing indigent and disadvantaged defendants just as vigorously as corporate lawyers defend their highest-paying clients has saved the lives of many who faced execution. CDPL's longstanding credibility with decision-makers, the public, and the media has made us the primary source of information on capital punishment in the state.
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Here are just a few of the comments from the chat that evening. It was amazing how we felt our community's presence, even though we were all in our separate homes. Thanks to N.C. Policy Watch for helping us get the word out about our ambitious new project, Racist Roots. They recently interviewed Kristin Collins, CDPL's associate director of public information, about how Racist Roots came to be and what it's all about.
Raleigh, NC - North Carolina is the only southern state whose appellate courts have never once enforced the law prohibiting race discrimination against jurors of color. But that could be about to change. Supreme Court will hear arguments in State v. Clegg, a case that offers the opportunity to address the unfair exclusion of Black citizens from jury service.
Here are just a few of the comments from the chat that evening. It was amazing how we felt our community's presence, even though we were all in our separate homes. Though we cannot gather in person this year, we still want to celebrate Tye's career and our movement's many victories this year. And we still need your support to keep up the fight for a more humane world without the death penalty.
Gretchen joined CDPL in 1992, after graduating from Northeastern University School of Law and interning at the Southern Center for Human Rights and the Alabama Resource Center. Gretchen grew up largely in the Great Lakes region and received her B.A. from Oberlin College. In 2004, she received the Paul Green Award from the NC-ACLU Legal Foundation for her work against the death penalty.
In early 2021, more than 150 years after the Civil War and the passage of the 14th Amendment, the N.C. Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System (NC CRED) launched a campaign to rid county courthouses across North Carolina of Confederate monuments and symbols.
CDPL stands in solidarity with this effort and with civil rights advocates who seek racial justice in all aspects of the criminal punishment and carceral systems.As James E. Williams Jr., who is of counsel at CDPL and serves as NC CRED Chair, said, Our public grounds, especially our courthouse grounds, should not be home to symbols that honor white supremacy.
CDPL stands in solidarity with this effort and with civil rights advocates who seek racial justice in all aspects of the criminal punishment and carceral systems.As James E. Williams Jr., who is of counsel at CDPL and serves as NC CRED Chair, said, Our public grounds, especially our courthouse grounds, should not be home to symbols that honor white supremacy.
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