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reducing the state’s death row population by more than 10%. Cooper, who was barred from seeking a third consecutive four-year term, will give way to fellow Democrat Josh Stein on Wednesday when ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Joseph Amrine, who was exonerated two decades ago after spending years on death row, speaks at a rally to ...
NORTH CAROLINA (WLOS) — In his final day in office, Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina. “These reviews are among the most difficult decisions a ...
In a monumental move, President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 out of 40 people on federal death row. Their death sentences will be reduced to life without ...
The state Supreme Court handed down two decisions Thursday that dealt blows to two men on Mississippi's death row. Richard Jordan, who has been on death row in Mississippi since 1977 for the 1976 ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Filipino death-row drug convict Mary Jane Veloso poses for a photo with a Mother Mary statue during a ...
The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof. Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop ...
President Joe Biden changed the sentence for most federal death row prisoners on Monday, Dec. 23. Only three of the 40 did not get their sentence commuted. Biden said he wanted to prevent ...
The lethal injection of Christopher Collings on Dec. 3 left just eight men on death row — a figurative term since condemned Missouri inmates are housed with other prisoners. By contrast ...
In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper granted clemency to 15 people on death row.They include three people in Forsyth County — Cerron Hooke, James Little, and Timothy White.