North Carolina's latest Democratic governor was sworn in to office on Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded Roy Cooper once ...

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

Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences ... “We have long known that the death penalty in North Carolina is racially biased, unjust, and immoral, and the Governor’s actions today pave the ...

NC Governor Cooper commutes two sentences and grants two pardons, highlighting a commitment to justice reform.

Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina on his last day in office.

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

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leaving his job after eight years in which the southern Democrat picked his moments against ...

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

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

Josh Stein is the governor of North Carolina, pledging his oath on Wednesday morning alongside his wife Anna. Stein, 58, ...

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

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