Governor Josh Stein signed 15 bills into law on Tuesday, June 1, including House Bill 537, also known as Alena’s Law.

The shooter was a federal inmate, Kelvin Simmons, who escaped from an Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital facility in Murphy.

Roy Lee Ward was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne. He has been on death row ...

A federal judge is urging NASCAR and two of its teams to settle their increasingly acrimonious legal fight that spilled over ...

Under the state's current law, death row inmates can only be executed via lethal injection. House Bill 270 , if passed, would also make death by electrocution and firing squad available choices.

Marcus Mitchell is on death row at North Carolina’s Central Prison. Convicted of a triple murder, he’s been there for 27 years. And he’s likely never getting out. But he doesn’t believe ...

Marcus Mitchell is on death row at North Carolina’s Central Prison. Convicted of a triple murder, he’s been there for 27 years. And he’s likely never getting out.

Under Title II of the law, ... There are 121 people on death row in North Carolina, according to the Department of Adult Correction. The majority of them are men at Central Prison.