Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...

In his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday changed the justice resolved through legal prosecutions ...

Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of six people in North Carolina prisons on Monday afternoon and granted pardons to ...

Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not ...

With 15 death row commutations, Gov. Cooper joins a majority of U.S. governorsin limiting the excesses of the death ...

Noel Nickle, executive director of the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, warned the long pause ...

One of Gov. Roy Cooper's final actions in office was to commute the death penalty sentences of 15 men on death row in North ...

As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.