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, ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

A Rock County man will not see the outside of a prison cell until he is at least 73 for the murder of a woman pregnant with ...

The Supreme Court declined to issue a stay of execution or take up an appeal by James Ford. It would be the first execution ...

Linebarger was initially charged with murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.