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

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 ...

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

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

Gov. Roy Cooper’s second four-year term as our state’s chief executive is ending and, by any fair assessment, he’s done a ...

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

In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper granted clemency to 15 people on death row. They include three people in ...

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

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

The WCU Political Science Department Chair compares it to the race in 1984 where two-term North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt ...

Gov. Roy Cooper gives his final speech as North Carolina's top executive during the swearing-in of Gov.-elect Josh Stein.

The Democratic governor has a storied career in NC politics and now he is finishing out his second term as governor. Here's ...