In my experience, juries in death penalty cases are thoughtful and meticulous in one of the most difficult duties a citizen ...

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

On his final day in office Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death ...

Cooper's decision to commute the 15 inmates' sentences marks the largest clemency action of its kind in North Carolina.

North Carolina has not executed a death row inmate since 2006. Observer file The Supreme Court of North Carolina’s decision last week to uphold the death sentence of a man convicted of killing ...

Read the stories behind the three inmates from North Carolina who were on federal death row. Barnette, of Charlotte, was sentenced in 1998 for the killing of two people: his ex-girlfriend Robin ...

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

The Supreme Court of North Carolina’s decision last week ... race could not be considered in implementing the death penalty, and inmates could challenge their sentence if they believed race ...

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