‘He can do this’: Protesters march, call on Gov. Cooper to commute death sentences

BY KORIE DEAN | UPDATED DECEMBER 11, 2022 11:58 AM

About 200 people gathered across from the North Carolina Executive Mansion on Saturday afternoon, calling on Gov. Roy Cooper to commute the sentences of incarcerated people in the state facing the death penalty. The rally, which was held in a parking lot on the corner of Person and Jones streets in downtown Raleigh, was the culmination of a roughly two-mile march that began at Central Prison, on Western Boulevard, at noon. About 140 people participated in the march, organizer Noel Nickle said, with more people joining the rally that began shortly after 1:30 p.m.

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