Southern Coalition for Social Justice supports the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NCCADP) team in the 136-mile walk to raise awareness of the 136 lives at risk of execution in North Carolina and to call on Governor Roy Cooper to eliminate that risk by commuting death sentences. The Walk for Commutation will begin in Winston-Salem on September 26th and end in Raleigh on October 10th, which is World Day Against the Death Penalty. The route will begin and end in the two counties, Forsyth and Wake, where more people are sentenced to death than anywhere else in NC.
Over the course of two weeks, NCCADP will make stops along the way for shared meals, film screenings, conversations, and sing-alongs. Please complete this google form to let NCCADP know how you’d like to be involved in the walk. In addition to planned programs, they will also pause at historic and contemporary sites where the racism of our criminal legal system continues to thrive. NCCADP will finalize the schedule and route closer to date, but the current plan is:
- 9/26 to 9/28 in the Winston Salem area
- 9/29 to 10/1 Greensboro
- 10/2 Alamance County
- 10/3 Hillsborough
- 10/4 to 10/6 Durham
- 10/7 to 10/8 Chapel Hill
- 10/9 to 10/10 Raleigh
The end of the walk will be marked by World Day Against the Death Penalty with a program at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh the evening of October 10th.
Learn more about this event on the NCCADP website.