The death penalty: Yes or No?
Published February 3, 2021
Last few days I’ve been thinking about the death penalty in North Carolina. Truth is, once in a while, I’ve thought about the death penalty as long as I can remember.
When I was a boy, delivering the Daily Advance newspaper in Elizabeth City, there’d be an occasional story about an execution in the gas chamber at Central Prison in Raleigh. People would talk about it for a day or two, both sides arguing about right and wrong; crime and punishment; an eye for an eye; the living and the dead. Perhaps a minister offering a prayer for the felon. Raleigh was a long way away and an execution there was Out-of-sight out-of mind.