Roy Cooper's last day in office, multiple North Carolina district attorneys are pushing back on his last-minute announcement ...

Before Tuesday, North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row. Cooper's office said it had received clemency petitions from 89 of them. Cooper's office said it considered a variety of factors ...

In my experience, juries in death penalty cases are thoughtful and meticulous in one of the most difficult duties a citizen ...

Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves claimed a spot in the season-opening Daytona 500 as part of a slew of ...

North Carolina expanded the law for people seeking medical release from prison, but eligibility remains limited.

Courts rejects ACLU lawsuit to allow the condemned to tell their own stories in efforts to save their lives; Gov McMaster ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state’s next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas holidays. The state is working through a backlog of inmates out of appeals but ...

Roy Cooper of North Carolina commuted the death sentences of 15 people this week but still denied the majority of clemency petitions from prisoners on death row. Cooper announced on Tuesday that ...

On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel State has halted executions amid litigation over the past 20 years.  Read M ...

On his way out the door, then-North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 individuals on the Tarheel State’s death row. Cooper, a Democrat whose name has been floated as one of ...

Before Tuesday’s commutations, North Carolina had 136 convicted killers on death row, and the Governor’s Clemency Office received petitions for clemency from 89 death-row inmates, the governor ...

Just before they are executed, death row inmates at in North Carolina are strapped to this gurney at Central Prison in ...