North Carolina has a total of 137 people on death row. All but two are men. According to a demographic summary from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, 74 are Black, 53 are […] ...

North Carolina has a total of 136 people on death row. All but two are men. According to a demographic summary from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, 75 are Black, 51 are […] ...

The majority of North Carolina's death row inmates—74 out of 134—are Black or African American, making up about 55.2% of the list compared to 20% of the state's population according to the ...

Before Tuesday, North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said it had received clemency petitions from 89 of them.

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (CN) — A Black North Carolina man argued Wednesday that his race was factor in the jury selection that led to his 2009 death sentence as part of an case brought under the North ...

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 now-defunct Racial Justice Act.

Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not long after a series of reforms began sharply reducing the number of ...

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 now-defunct Racial Justice Act.

By 1984, North Carolina’s death row was back in business, but dissent lingered. In 2003, state senator Eleanor Kinnaird, D-Orange, proposed a bill to create a two-year study on the inequalities ...

Robinson was the youngest person ever sentenced to death in North Carolina. He had been on death row for 15 years when, in August of 2009, the North Carolina legislature, dominated at the time by ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without the ...