Capital punishment in North Carolina
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Capital punishment is legal in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The methods of execution permitted is lethal injection.
Capital crimes
First-degree murder is the only capital crime in North Carolina.[1]
A person convicted of first-degree murder may be sentenced instead to life in prison without parole.[1]
As in any other state, people who are under 18 at the time of commission of the capital crime [2] or mentally retarded[3] are constitutionally precluded from being executed.
Death row
Death row for males is located at the Central Prison. Female death row prisoners are housed at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Both prisons are located in Raleigh.
See also
- Crime in North Carolina
- List of people executed in North Carolina
- List of wrongful convictions in the United States
- List of exonerated death row inmates
- List of death row inmates in the United States
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crimes Punishable by the Death Penalty
- ↑ Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005)
- ↑ Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002)
