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

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

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...

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

Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...

In his final day in office, Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina.

As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...

One of Gov. Roy Cooper's final actions in office was to commute the death penalty sentences of 15 men on death row in North ...

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 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 ...