Governor Cooper says he commuted the sentences after reviewing the detailed petitions for clemency, input from district ...

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.

Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...

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

The WCU Political Science Department Chair compares it to the race in 1984 where two-term North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentence of 15 men convicted of ...

The Myrtle Beach Mall is now at the center of a lawsuit centered around an alleged assault in its parking lot.

Before stepping aside from the highest office in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper has made what he said is among his most ...

North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said ...

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 ...

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