This Day in History: Patrick Lane Moody, a convicted murderer, was executed in Raleigh, North Carolina on this day in 2006 for killing the husband of his girlfriend. 2006 was the last year executions were held in North Carolina. From 1984 to 2006, 43 people were executed in my state of North Carolina, only one being a woman. Most of the men were white, with 13 being black. Most executions are done by lethal injection...two were by Gas chamber. Death row for males is located at the Central Prison. Female death row prisoners are housed at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Both prisons are located in Raleigh.
The infamous Black Widow, Blanche Taylor Moore, is still on death row in North Carolina. She is 88 years old.
The death penalty has been a part of North Carolina law since the state was a British colony. The first known execution by colonial authorities was the hanging of a Native American man in 1726.
As of 2018, there were 141 people on death row in North Carolina (North Carolina has the sixth largest death row in the USA)...a few end up dying of natural causes while awaiting execution. There have been nine people in North Carolina sentenced to death who turned out to be innocent.
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