N.C. Legislators Rework Bill on Death Penalty Moratorium
ELIZABETH CITY — Jerry W. Conner shot a Gates County store clerk in the neck in 1990, then he raped and killed the clerk’s 16-year-old daughter in the store. He emptied the cash register and left his victims to die.Wade L. Cole shot the mother of his two children and stabbed her more than 100 times in Camden County in 1988. When the woman’s mother tried to break up the fight, Cole fatally stabbed her in the chest.
Both men were convicted for the crimes and sentenced to die by lethal injection. Both are on death row.
Conner is nearing the final stages of appeals and is expected to be put to death this year or next year, District Attorney Frank Parrish said.
A bill in the North Carolina House of Representatives, though, could freeze the process and possibly keep Conner and Cole, as well as the 174 other inmates on death row, alive longer.
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