At age 15, Shelton Crockett was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in connection with the kidnapping, ...

During a raid on his illegal whiskey distilling operation in 1921, Williams was accused of killing a deputy. After he got out ...

Nearly three dozen individuals from North Carolina faced charges related to the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol four years ago.

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

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

A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted of instructing a correctional officer to physically punish a ...

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

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

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

North Carolina Federal Prison Supervisor Convicted After Instructing Physical Punishment BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted after investigators say ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted of instructing a correctional officer to physically punish a man incarcerated at the institution. Daniel ...