Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermon found race played a major role in the prosecution and sentencing of Hasson Bacote to the death penalty in 2009. Gov. Roy Cooper granted Bacote clemency on Dec. 31, ...

Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...

South Carolina women's basketball needed a hero and the rookie responded Thursday. South Carolina had to fend off an Alabama team that rallied late in the third quarter, but freshman Joyce Edwards ...

The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...

North Carolina death row inmates may be eligible for resentencing if it is determined that a Black defendant's trial was ...

From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...

Texas's first female condemned killer received special permission to leave jail and be baptized at New Light Baptist Church ...

On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, influencing the makeup of the jury along with the decision of the death ...

When Tessa Johnson stole the ball, giving the final shot to South Carolina women's basketball, the fans quieted to concentrate but once the ball was in Fulwiley's hands with the clock at eight ...

The number of fatalities related to Tropical Storm Helene has risen to 105, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Jan. 29. The additional death occurred in Buncombe ...

A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who ...