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This book, Special Bulletin No. 10, issued by The North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, comprises the results of a study of the capital punishment situation in North Carolina. This is preceded by an historical sketch of the entire situation and concluded with a series of case histories. I can do no better than quote from the Introduction and from the Conclusions from Case Histories the following pertinent sentences:
“A visit to the death row in the State Prison at Raleigh is an experience which every citizen of the State should have at least once. The prisoners in the death row are there because the people of North Carolina wish them to be or are indifferent to or ignorant of the social factors responsible for their situation. That many persons condemned to death eventually receive commutation of sentence does not lessen the responsibility of the individual citizen in regard to the death penalty. As uncomfortable as it may make him, he should be willing to face the concrete results of whatever attitude, or lack of one, he has had toward capital punishment as it is found in that depressing group at Raleigh.