On his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death row sentences of 15 people to life without parole.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, on his last day in office Tuesday, commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without parole.

Before stepping aside from the highest office in North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper has made what he said is among his most difficult decisions.

Governor Cooper says he commuted the sentences after reviewing the detailed petitions for clemency, input from district attorneys and victims’ families, and a close review by his office.

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

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Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without possibility of parole on New Year’s Eve following five years of vigils outside the governor’s mansion and a two-year sustained campaign to grant clemency to all inmates sentenced to death.

Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday reduced the sentences of two people in North Carolina prisons and granted pardons of forgiveness to two others.