The Quran encourages forgiveness and compensation to the victim's family as preferable alternatives to retribution. This ...

Breaking news.  Government’s decision to expunge the death penalty will see the country moving with international trends and ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday -- his last day in office -- that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row. He also granted two other commutations and two pardons.Cooper's office said ...

The governor of North Carolina reduced the death sentence of 15 inmates to life without parole on his last day in office.

In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper granted clemency to 15 people on death row. They include three people in Forsyth County — Cerron Hooke, James Little, and Timothy White. All 15 are ...

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 ...

On his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death row sentences of 15 people to life without ...

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has saved a Robeson County man convicted of murder from his death sentence.

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

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...