Cheers for The Boss, Bruce Springsteen. An opponent of the death penalty, Springsteen allowed an anti-death penalty group to have a booth at his North Carolina concert this past Saturday. He did the same in 2000.

When Springsteen played shows in Charlotte and Raleigh in 2000, he dedicated a song each night to the statewide death penalty abolition group and encouraged the audience to support it. Before the shows, PFADP volunteers met members of the E Street Band and Springsteen met with PFADP's executive director.

"Bruce Springsteen makes the connection between the lives portrayed in his songs and the ones reflected in our death penalty system in North Carolina: people struggling through hard lives, a random few of whom are extinguished by this broken, corrupt system we call capital punishment," said PFADP Executive Director Stephen Dear. "We are grateful that he is willing to make this statement time and again. We only wish he did not have to."