/tags/death-row Death Row en-US Copyright Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:25:17 GMT /politics/2024-12-31/roy-cooper-commutes-death-row-sentences-final-day-nc On his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death row sentences of 15 people to life without parole. Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:25:17 GMT /politics/2024-12-31/roy-cooper-commutes-death-row-sentences-final-day-nc Dave DeWitt /law/2021-06-17/gov-roy-cooper-grants-pardon-ex-death-row-inmate-finch The governor's move makes Charles Ray Finch eligible to file a claim under state law which allows compensation to people wrongly convicted of felonies. Thu, 17 Jun 2021 11:44:18 GMT /law/2021-06-17/gov-roy-cooper-grants-pardon-ex-death-row-inmate-finch Associated Press /news/2021-05-17/nc-half-brothers-wrongfully-sent-to-death-row-awarded-75m-in-damages A jury in a North Carolina federal civil rights case has awarded $75 million to two Black, intellectually disabled half brothers who spent decades behind bars after being wrongfully convicted in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Mon, 17 May 2021 20:35:23 GMT /news/2021-05-17/nc-half-brothers-wrongfully-sent-to-death-row-awarded-75m-in-damages Associated Press /law/2020-12-18/nc-supreme-court-orders-new-trial-for-death-row-inmate The North Carolina Supreme Court decided Friday to allow a new trial for a death row inmate convicted of robbing and murdering an elderly couple in their… Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:12:07 GMT /law/2020-12-18/nc-supreme-court-orders-new-trial-for-death-row-inmate Associated Press /race-demographics/2020-09-25/3-north-carolina-death-row-inmates-to-serve-life-in-prison The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Friday that three death row inmates will have their sentences reduced to life in prison through the state's… Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:43:44 GMT /race-demographics/2020-09-25/3-north-carolina-death-row-inmates-to-serve-life-in-prison Associated Press /2020-09-21/gasping-for-air-autopsies-reveal-troubling-effects-of-lethal-injection For decades, states have claimed that lethal injection is quick, peaceful and painless. An NPR investigation — and legal battles across the country — tell a different story. Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:00:00 GMT /2020-09-21/gasping-for-air-autopsies-reveal-troubling-effects-of-lethal-injection Noah Caldwell, Ailsa Chang, Jolie Myers /law/2020-09-17/new-book-shares-the-view-from-inside-north-carolinas-death-row The criminal justice system puts prisoners out of sight and out of mind for the public. But the recently published book “Crimson Letters: Voices from… Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:40:06 GMT /law/2020-09-17/new-book-shares-the-view-from-inside-north-carolinas-death-row Kaia Findlay, Frank Stasio /law/2020-08-20/why-black-defendants-dont-get-judged-by-a-jury-of-their-peers The North Carolina Supreme Court banned the state from reinstating the death sentence on a Black man named Marcus Robinson last Friday. Robinson was… Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:59:40 GMT /law/2020-08-20/why-black-defendants-dont-get-judged-by-a-jury-of-their-peers Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /show/the-state-of-things/2020-08-20/why-black-defendants-dont-get-judged-by-a-jury-of-their-peers The North Carolina Supreme Court banned the state from reinstating the death sentence on a Black man named Marcus Robinson last Friday. Robinson was… Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:59:40 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-08-20/why-black-defendants-dont-get-judged-by-a-jury-of-their-peers Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /law/2020-06-05/nc-court-death-row-inmates-can-use-repealed-bias-law At least two death row inmates in North Carolina can use a law addressing racial discrimination to seek life sentences instead, even though the law has… Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:57:39 GMT /law/2020-06-05/nc-court-death-row-inmates-can-use-repealed-bias-law Associated Press