On this day in 1995: Fourteen years after being convicted of the rape and murder of a N.C. Wesleyan College cheerleader, Kermit Smith is executed by lethal injection at Central Prison in Raleigh. Smith becomes the first white person in North Carolina — and the second in the nation the Supreme Court reinstated the death […]
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Black victim, white killer, rare consequences
Posted in On This Day, tagged capital punishment, central prison raleigh, kermit smith, nc wesleyan college, white on black crime on January 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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