USA - North Carolina. North Carolina did not send any new inmates to death row il 2012

North Carolina did not send any new inmates to death row for the 1st time since its current death penalty law took effect in 1977. The Fayetteville Observer reports the state also hasn't executed anyone since 2006, and won't any time soon because of an unofficial moratorium on executions over what the role of doctors should be in administering lethal injections. The lawsuit remains unresolved. North Carolina hasn't always been so ambivalent about executions. Juries in the state have sent 400 people to death row since the state's most recent death penalty law was passed in 1977. Forty-three of those people have been executed. In 1995, the state sentenced 34 people to death, the most since it reinstated the death penalty in 1977. In 1999, 24 people were sentenced to death, In 2000, juries in the state presided at 57 capital trials, ultimately yielding 18 death sentences. In 2011, there were 12 capital trials resulting in 3 death sentences, and in 2012 the state had a record-low of four capital trials, with no death sentences.