The Capital Restorative Justice Project

800 Watts Street

Durham, NC, 27701

Phone: 919-801-1781

Email: thecrjp@hotmail.com

The mission of the Capital Restorative Justice Project (the CRJP) is to promote healing and nonviolent responses within North Carolina communities torn apart by capital murder and executions.

A central principle of the CRJP is that a murder is not simply a crime against the state, but rather, is fundamentally a crime against a family and a community of people. As a corollary, executions only perpetuate trauma and produce new victims of violence.

The CRJP is organized into four Healing Circles—one for families of murder victims, one for families of offenders, one for professionals who work on capital cases, and one for others traumatized by the cycle of violence. The Circles provide space and community through which murder victim families and those traumatized by death sentences can find healing.

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