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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

President Joe Biden has announced that he is commuting the sentences of nearly every inmate on federal death row to life in prison ... the 2015 Charleston South Carolina mass shooting at an ...

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 ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of murdering Kaylee Martin and setting her body on fire in South Carolina’s Dorchester County.