There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has ...

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 ...

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

From then on, besides a four-year pause in the 1970s when the death penalty was illegal nationwide, North Carolina steadily carried out executions. According to a 2021 report by an Appalachian ...

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

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

Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina on his last day in office.

None of the individuals affected Monday were death penalty cases, though Cooper further stated that he plans more clemency announcements before the end of the year. North Carolina is one of 27 ...

However, North Carolina did not have a state penitentiary and, many said, no suitable alternative to capital punishment.[10] The first reforms of the death penalty occurred between 1776-1800.

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