These older inmates manipulated younger ones who freshly joined them; they lured the minors with tea, garri and little things to force them to commit sodomy. The minors sometimes fall for the tricks ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis argued that President Joe Biden’s commutations hinder their chance of appeal as they seek to ...

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

Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them. Their sentences were commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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

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 ...

Cooper commuted their sentences after he reviewed petitions for clemency submitted by the death-row inmates being held at Central Prison in Raleigh, the governor’s office said Tuesday.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — 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 ...

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Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 individuals on the Tarheel State’s death row. Cooper ... they will spend the rest of their lives in prison." No executions have occurred in North Carolina ...

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

President Joe Biden has announced that he is commuting the sentences of nearly every inmate on federal death row to life in prison, without the possibility of parole. The move is intended to keep ...