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

New North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein took several actions on Thursday to help the short- and long-term recovery from Hurricane ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's latest Democratic governor was sworn into office on Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded ...

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

Roy Cooper oversaw a booming state economy in his eight years in office, but some of the biggest jobs projects have yet to ...

In an interview, Roy Cooper spoke about his legacy, how to appeal to Republicans and Democratic speculation that he might run ...

Roy Cooper oversaw a booming state economy in his eight years in office, but some of the biggest jobs projects have yet to ...