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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

With North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s term drawing ... I pledged to never seek the death penalty if elected. I have seen the death penalty’s deep flaws firsthand. It is an irreversible ...

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 ...

Here's a look back at SMU receiving the "death penalty" in the 1980s as the Mustangs head up to Happy Valley to take on Penn State in the first round of the College Football Playoffs. The NCAA ...