Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates in the state on his last day in office, a move that ...

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