A new year is upon us and with it, some important changes in state government. As a result of the November election, North ...

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

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 ...

In his final day in office, Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina.

Stein has been the attorney general for the past eight years, following Cooper in the elected law-enforcement post that ...

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

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

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

Roy Cooper is no stranger to politics. Born and raised in North Carolina, Cooper got his start in public service with the NC ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates in the state on his last day in office, a move that ...

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