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North Carolina and the Death Penalty

North Carolina allows the death penalty as an option in cases of first-degree murder.

North Carolina authorizes lethal injection and gas chamber.

Minimum age for death penalty: 17

Executions 1930-1976: 268

Executions since 1977: 9

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