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

Governor Roy Cooper announced today (Tuesday) that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row in North Carolina to life ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...

Police announced that Joseph Michael Whitehurst was arrested by U.S. Marshals in North Carolina for a Dec. 14 assault on King ...