North Carolina Republican Backs Moratorium

    Following a vote by North Carolina's Senate to support a moratorium on executions in order to allow time to study the death penalty six-term Republican House Delegate David Miner of North Carolina stated, "I am very encouraged. It was a historic vote and we hope to repeat that in the House in coming weeks." Miner is a self-proclaimed "pro-life Republican" who chairs the House Finance Committee and is co-sponsoring the moratorium bill in that chamber. Stressing his concern that most people on death row are poor, Miner recently stated that "capital punishment is discriminatory."