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

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 ...

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

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

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

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

NBC News reported that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life imprisonment without parole before leaving his position on New Year’s Day (Jan. 1). “These ...

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 ...

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 ...