Multiple NC District Attorneys slam last-minute decision to commute death row sentences
Roy Cooper's last day in office, multiple North Carolina district attorneys are pushing back on his last-minute announcement ...
North Carolina Gov. Cooper commutes sentences of 15 death row inmates
One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...
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NC Gov. Roy Cooper commutes sentences of 15 death row inmates before leaving office
Cooper's decision to commute the 15 inmates' sentences marks the largest clemency action of its kind in North Carolina.
Raleigh News & Observer29d
NC has 136 people on death row but has had no executions since 2006. Here’s why
Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not long after a series of reforms began sharply reducing the number of ...
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Hasson Bacote among death row inmates to have sentences commuted in North Carolina
NBC News reported that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life imprisonment without ...
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Biden commutes federal death row sentences for 3 inmates from NC. Who are they?
President Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 people on federal death row. In this 2002 photo, prisoners on North Carolina’s death row make their way back to their cell block at Central ...
Charlotte Observer29d
NC has 136 people on death row but has had no executions since 2006. Here’s why
The Supreme Court of North Carolina’s decision last week to uphold the death sentence of a man convicted of killing two people in Raleigh in 2016 raises the question: When was the last time a ...