NC Governor Cooper commutes two sentences and grants two pardons, highlighting a commitment to justice reform.

North Carolina’s public inauguration ceremony scheduled for Saturday for new Gov. Josh Stein and other statewide elected ...

Stein has been the attorney general for the past eight years, following Cooper in the elected law-enforcement post that ...

Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina on his last day in office.

New North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein took several actions on Thursday to help the short- and long-term recovery from Hurricane ...

By Reid J. Epstein Reporting from Washington Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina is set to leave office on New Year’s Day after two terms that began with his effort to undo the state’s ...

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...

Josh Stein is the governor of North Carolina, pledging his oath on Wednesday morning alongside his wife Anna. Stein, 58, ...

Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences ... “We have long known that the death penalty in North Carolina is racially biased, unjust, and immoral, and the Governor’s actions today pave the ...

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's latest Democratic governor was sworn into office on Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded Roy Cooper in a top elected position for the second time in eight years.