A 67-year-old former Sampson County man should be able to breathe a sigh of relief this week after N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death penalty portion of his murder conviction just before ...

The year came to a violent end in Charlotte this week, as six people were killed in the city between Christmas Day and New ...

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

On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel ...

Gov. Roy Cooper commutes the sentences of 15 convicted killers on death row, including three former Forsyth County residents, ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man expected to be the next inmate scheduled for execution in South Carolina is making a final appeal to the state Supreme Court. Marion Bowman Jr. is on death row for ...

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

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

As one of his last acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life ...

North Carolina’s outgoing Democratic Governor Roy Cooper has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row to life ...

In one final act of 2024 and before leaving office, now former Governor Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 people ...