Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

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

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

On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel ...

WINSTON SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — On Governor Roy Cooper’s final day in office Tuesday, he commuted the sentences of 15 death row ...

One of Roy Cooper’s final acts as governor was to commute the sentences of 15 death row inmates. They will remain in prison ...

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

As one of his last acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life ...

Outgoing North Carolina governor commutes 15 death row sentences Cooper, who was barred from seeking a third consecutive four-year term, will give way to fellow Democrat Josh Stein on Wednesday ...

NBC News reported that North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life imprisonment without parole before leaving his position on New Year’s Day (Jan. 1). “These ...

North Carolina’s outgoing Democratic Governor Roy Cooper has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row to life ...

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