USA - North Carolina. Conservative group urges McCrory to veto death penalty secrecy bill.

Conservative group urges McCrory to veto death penalty secrecy bill. The following statement was released this afternoon by the group NC Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty: NC Conservatives Concerned Urges Governor McCrory to Veto Bill Eliminating Transparency in Executions. North Carolina Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (NC CCADP) urges Governor Pat McCrory to veto House Bill 774 "Restoring Proper Justice Act," legislation aimed at taking transparency out of the way in which our state executes individuals. "This legislation is bad policy for North Carolina. Conducting executions is the most extreme expression of the state's power and should be done in an open and transparent process," said Ballard Everett, coordinator for NC CCADP. "Making secret the way in which our state obtains the drugs needed and conducts executions practically guarantees that NC will join states around the country that have seen horribly botched executions." "Even the bill's sponsors have admitted passage of H774 would invite more costly litigation," said Everett. "Why then are they committed to wasting more tax payer dollars by creating more issues that have to be litigated in courts?"