One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009, a judge had yet to issue a decision in that case.

A North Carolina man found guilty of killing a Wisconsin man in Jeffersonville will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. Christopher Tandy was sentenced to 65 years for the 2021 shooting death of Rodrick Wallace.

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday,