A NEW TRIAL

This is a story of friendship, love, betrayal, condemnation, absence, reunion, redemption, acceptance, loss and love again. Love changes...

This is a video call I had with Vanessa on January 2021, only weeks before she passed away. In the call she talks about her experience...

Can enough be said in such a moment as this? Never. Every emotion abounds. My friend, lover, confidant, betrayer. Her life since she...

For the last couple of weeks, we have been in contact with Vanessa S., the prosecution's main witness. She allowed us to record a video...

We are currently overhauling a lot of the content on this website. This might take some time. Until then, the best way to read up on the...

What one can observe on any given day within the confines of a pod on Death Row in North Carolina would, I think, both confuse and...

Esse Quam Videri This was what was prominently displayed behind the judge as I endured the tedious boredom that accompanied my weeks...

It doesn’t seem to matter where you are anymore, or what you do in life for an income or for leisure, almost everyone wants their opinion...

This post is part of an ongoing series: Part 2: Harmless Error Part 3: Reasons Why These are the women and men who currently reside on...

We have uploaded a couple of new documents to our resources section. Transcript - Criminal Session Dec 18 (CrimSes_18): Transcript of a...

In the year 1804, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was impeached for denying a jury’s right to judge law. In the entire history of the...

What would you say to someone, if you thought it was the last time you see them? I guess it would also depend on whether it was a general...

Connick v. Thompson, October 16, 2010 officially gave credence to, and legitimized, what has been the unspoken but long known and...

Absurdities come with existing on Death Row. I do not mean all the usual antics you would expect of the depraved and mentally challenged...

The OPINION piece "As death sentences decline, NC should end them" published by the News & Observer editorial board on 12/27/18 has...

Routines, schedules, compliance ... The institutionalization of an independent mind, a life. No matter an individual's will to resist,...

What did you eat today? Anything healthy and nutritious? Something that was neither of those, but was decadent and sumptuous? With no...

We added all court transcripts as well as some other documents to our resources section. With that, most older documents are available...

When we first met it could have hardly have been a worse time. I had recently been devastated emotionally by the love of my life, and...

"Freund" has always be a difficult concept for me. It is expressed to us initially as other describe and explain, but as we begin to...