The "Beyond Executions" event this year commemorated the lives of 43 people executed in NC. The last person executed in NC was Samuel Flippen in August 2006.
In Fayetteville, three community members—Lisette Rodriguez, Shawn McMillan, and Angela Malloy—have teamed up to reform their city's public safety system, arguing that the current system of policing and methods of crime prevention are not making the community safer or reducing crime as intended.