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

who are currently being held in Evin prison. Many were among the tens of thousands of people arrested in connection with the "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests that followed the death of 22-year-old ...

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause ...

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

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

As one of his last acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life ...

As if his 1,500 pardons weren’t enough to cause outrage, President Biden has gone further. Near the expiration of his failed presidency, Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on ...

NC Governor Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentence of an alleged Satan worshipper who killed to 'get in good graces' with ...

President Joe Biden’s recent pardon of David Runyon, a man once on death row for his role in a 2007 murder-for-hire plot, has ...