Deathwatch North Carolina


"We provide news updates, with links to relevant sources and documents, several times a week. On occasion, we publish longer opinion-based articles about specific cases or major issues in capital and/or criminal defense."

Author: DeathWatch North Carolina is a source of information about the death penalty in North Carolina and elsewhere.

Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Death Penalty • States • North Carolina

Recent Posts from Deathwatch North Carolina


  • No Death Penalty for Anderson, Bethea

    Cumberland County prosecutors have announced that they will not seek the death penalty against Michael Anderson or Derrick Durrant Bethea.  Anderson stands accused of shooting his girlfriend in their apartment in 2008, while Bethea shot…

  • Executions – November 2009

    4 – Paul Beasley Johnson (FL – stayed) 5 – Khristian Oliver (TX) 10 – Darryl Durr (OH – stayed) 10 – Yosvanis Valle (TX) 10 – John Allen Muhammad (VA) 17 – Larry Elliott…

  • Death Penalty Lawyer Elected Mayor

    Well here’s one you don’t see every day. Mark Kleinschmidt, director of the Fair Trial Initiative and counsel for several North Carolina death row inmates, has been elected mayor of Chapel Hill.

  • Jury Selection Underway for Flood

    In Alamance County, three jurors have been selected for the trial of Lawrence Donell Flood, Sr. If convicted of first-degree murder, Flood could be sentenced to death.  Flood has been charged with the 2007 slaying…

  • Executions – October 2009

    5 -Larry Bird Elliott (VA – stayed) 8 – Lawrence Reynolds Jr. (OH – stayed) 8 – Max Payne (AL) 22 – Christopher Kennedy (PA – stay likely) 27 – Reginald Blanton (TX)

  • Fair Trial Initiative Hosts Osborn Award Event

    A message from FTI: Third Annual Fair Trial Initiative J. Kirk Osborn Award Celebration Thursday, October 8, 2009, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Carolina Club on the UNC Campus, Chapel Hill, NC Walter E. Dellinger, III Keynote Speaker…

  • CDW <3 FTI

    There’s a lil shout-out in this edition of one of DeathWatch’s favorite blogs (Capital Defense Weekly) to one of DeathWatch’s favorite organizations (the Fair Trial Initiative).

  • Death Penalty Art Exhibit Closing Event

    A message from the North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium: After seven months at Duke, Premeditated: Meditations on Capital Punishment will be closing on September 16, 2009.  To celebrate the conclusion of this awe-inspiring exhibit…

  • Executions – September 2009

    1 – Jerome Marshall (PA – stayed) 2 – William Wright (PA – stayed) 15 – Romell Broom (OH) 16 – Stephen Moody (TX) 22 – Noel Matos Montalvo (PA – stay likely) 22 –…

  • New Approach to Death Penalty Decision-Making?

    A new article, featured at Sentencing Law and Policy, caught my eye.  Here’s the abstract: In almost every state that authorizes capital punishment, local county prosecutors are responsible for deciding when to seek the death…