Execution Index
United States (40 states): 731
The South (14 states): 629
North Carolina: 20
*Since 1977, when the U.S. Supreme Court again allowed states to apply death sentences.
N.C. Governors' Records
Mike Easley
Clemency granted: 0
Clemency denied: 5
Executed: 4
Jim Hunt (1977-1985, 1993-2000)
Clemency granted: 2
Clemency denied: 14
Jim Martin (1985-1993)
Clemency granted: 1
Clemency denied: 2
Bacon's Crime
First-degree murder of Glennie Clark
Strongest Case for Clemency
Racial bias on the part of two all-white juries that sentenced Bacon to death while giving his white, co-conspirator a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole in 2007.
Survivors
Bacon is survived by his mother and father, Elizabeth and Robert Bacon, Sr.; by brothers Elton Jackson, 53, and Melvin Jackson, 47; and by his sisters Marilyn Wright, 43, Robin Price, 41, and Diane Conner, 37.
Time of Execution
Friday, Oct. 5, 2 a.m.
Method of Execution
Lethal injection of thiopental sodium and procuonium bromide (Pavulon), which induces sleep and then stops all muscle action, including breathing.
Executioners
"Appropriately trained" volunteers work anonymously behind a curtain. Three inject syringes into IV tubes. Only one contains the lethal solution. The volunteers do not know which one.
Cost to N.C. Taxpayers
About $3 million, based on figures from the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington and from a 1993 study of North Carolina cases by Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, which estimated that murder cases ending in executions cost $2.1 million more than those resulting in sentences of life imprisonment.
Still on N.C. Death Row
Total: 219
Men: 213
Women: 6
African American: 121
Native American: 9
White: 85
Other: 4
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