Republican Party of Lee County

North Carolina currently has 163 criminals convicted of first degree murder on death row.  Collectively, 163 of them have committed 270 murders, 58 rapes, 40 kidnappings and hundreds of other violent felonies.  On July 15, Jimmy Love voted for a moratorium of the death penalty based on racial quotas.  This is a slap in the face to District Attorneys and Sheriffs who work hard to put these murderers behind bars and provide some sense of closure to the families of the victims.  It is a slap in the face to the taxpayers who will have to pay the burden of additional attorney fees for the current death row murderers.  Taxpayers will also be burdened for additional incarceration expenses.  This is why we should not elect criminal attorneys to the General Assembly.  Click here to read the full press release.