AP - North Carolina's People of Faith Against the Death Penalty marks 20th anniversary with exonerated half-brothers
Steve Hall
November 14, 2014 - 4:08 am \| The Tribune
North Carolina anti-death penalty group marks 20th anniversary with exonerated half-brothers
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina — Two half-brothers recently exonerated of murder are the guests when People of Faith Against the Death Penalty marks its 20th anniversary in North Carolina.
The group has scheduled a banquet for Friday at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill. Its guests will be Leon Brown and Henry McCollum, who were freed in September after a judge vacated their convictions in the 1983 rape and murder of a 13-year-old in Robeson County.
McCollum was the state's longest-serving death row prisoner.
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty will give an award to Helen Prejean, the nun known for her anti-death penalty work through the movie "Dead Man Walking."
Other awards will go to Sen. Floyd McKissick and to Rep. Larry Womble, who sponsored and championed the Racial Justice Act of 2009.
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