Another North Carolina City Passes Moratorium Resolution

By a vote of 8-1, the city of Greensboro became the eighth local government in North Carolina to pass a resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty.  Supporting the moratorium were three pro-death penalty Republican council members.  "I have very deep concerns about the equitability, the equality, and the efficiency" of the administration of the death penalty, said council member Nancy Vaughan, a Republican.  (People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, Press Release, 10/4/00