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 ...

On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel ...

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

In his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday changed the justice resolved through legal prosecutions ...

One of Roy Cooper’s final acts as governor was to commute the sentences of 15 death row inmates. They will remain in prison ...

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

Cooper's decision to commute the 15 inmates' sentences marks the largest clemency action of its kind in North Carolina.

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

A Robeson County man who has been on death for decades after being convicted of killing his stepfather had his sentence ...

It is hard to believe Jesus would execute anyone. Jesus' message was one of compassion and mercy, even as he hung on the ...

Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina on his last day in office.