Welcome to M.O.T.E. - Mothers Objecting to Excecution

Prisoners on Death Row live day-to-day dealing with the threat of execution; but the ultimate punishment is on the family members who endure these death sentences with them. In no way is this platform to reduce the loss of the victims families, but this is more a window to mothers enduring the mental anguish of having a child on death row.

Our goal is to bring family and friends of death row inmates together as a means of emotional support through out the long road of capital punishment.

M.O.T.E. is a outreached  hand that wipes away a tear and serves as a catalyst to promote unity and healing among families potential execution of their loved one.

Preparing the Way of the Lord!

Capital Punishment - Life on Death Row

For He looked down from His holy height: from heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth, To hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die, that men may tell the name of the Lord in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem, When the people are gathered together and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord. Psalm 102:19-22

After persons are found guilty of an offense and sentended to death, they remain on death row during appeals and hebeas corpus procedures.

When a death row inmate exhausts all appeals, the attorney general directs the secretary of the Department of Public Safety to set an execution date. That inmate - male or female - is moved into the death watch area of Central Prison three to seven days prior to the execution date. The death watch area is adjacent to the execution chamber and is located in the prison's custody control building. The inmate moves all personal belongings from the death row cell to one of the four cells in the death watch area.

Prisoners isolation and uncertainty over his or her fate constitute a form of mental cruelty and long-time death row inmates are liable to become mentally ill-if they are not already.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleans us from all unrighteousness. 1John 1:9

Prisoners may wait years before execution can be carried out and the time between sentencing and execuation has increased relatively steadily between 1977 and 2010. In 2010, a death row inmate waited and average of 179 months ( or close to 15 years) between sentencing and execution. Nearly a quarter of deaths on death row in the U.S. are due to natural causes.

DNA, is rarely available in homicides and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people. Obviously, if someone is convicted and later found innocent you can release him from prison, but not from the grave.

EXONERATIONS BY STATE

As of December 10, 2014 there have been 150 exonerations in 26 different States.

There are 159 Offenders on Death Row in NC