North Carolina is still feeling the adverse impact of the mandatory death penalty prosecution law, despite its repeal. | ...

Raleigh, North Carolina - North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced the commutation of 15 death row sentences on his final day in office. "After thorough review, reflection, and prayer ...

Before Tuesday, North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row. Cooper's office said it had received clemency petitions from 89 of them. Cooper's office said it considered a variety of factors ...

Just before they are executed, death row inmates at in North Carolina are strapped to this gurney at Central Prison in Raleigh. On the other side of the window are chairs where witnesses sit.

South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it ...

In the final hours of 2024, North Carolina's outgoing governor, Roy Cooper, commuted 15 death sentences, reducing by 10% the fifth-largest death row in the country — 121 of the state's prisoners ...

Roy Cooper of North Carolina commuted the death sentences of 15 people this week but still denied the majority of clemency petitions from prisoners on death row. Cooper announced on Tuesday that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

California has the most inmates on death row at 601. California Governor Gavin ... Bowman, in a statement released by the Western District of North Carolina Office of the Federal Public Defender ...