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 ...

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.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

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 ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates in the state on his last day in office, a move that ...

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 ...