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

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

Thirty-one years after being sentenced to death, a Fairfax County killer had his sentence changed to life in prison.

Just days after Tennessee announced it had a new manual for executing death row inmates, the state's top prison officials ...

Tarrant County now leads Dallas County in the number of people awaiting execution, according to state prison data and court ...

As President Biden prepares to leave office, he indicated that he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on ...

Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...

President Joe Biden applied DEI to all areas of his administration, but in its waning days, he spared 37 murderers and ...

One of Gov. Roy Cooper's final actions in office was to commute the death penalty sentences of 15 men on death row in North ...

Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...