Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates ...

Cooper’s decision follows a two-year long campaign for the governor to grant clemency to all inmates on North Carolina’s death row, which have included vigils outside the governor’s mansion.

Roy Cooper, on his last day in office Tuesday, commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison ... 136 prisoners currently on death row in North Carolina. While the Democratic ...

The death row inmate was convicted of murder in 2002 and is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection on Friday.

North Carolina remains the fifth-largest death row population in the country. Death sentence opposition groups have long been urging Cooper for a complete commutation for all inmates on death row ...

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...