The Justice Department has so far transferred 10 of 37 former death row inmates to the nation's 'supermax' prison, and it ...

The Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke Law has freed over a dozen wrongfully imprisoned individuals, many of whom were ...

A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias during jury selection, potentially opening the door to death row inmates ...

The crime bill Gov. Josh Stein signed into law on Friday that was drafted by GOP lawmakers after a fatal stabbing on Charlotte's light rail in August will have ramifications for North Carolina's death ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - North Carolina Governor Josh Stein on Friday, Oct. 3, signed House Bill 307, also known as ‘Iryna’s Law,’ following the death of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed on ...

N.C. Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, signed House Bill 307 into law on Oct. 3. Known as “Iryna’s Law,” the statute imposes harsher regulations for criminal proceedings and lays groundwork to resume ...

Eleven states and the District of Columbia provide the option under what are known as medically assisted death or MAID laws. New York has passed one that is awaiting the governor’s signature.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Democratic governor signed into law on Friday a criminal justice measure that the state’s Republican-controlled legislature approved in response to the stabbing ...

An inmate on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh works on a letter in a common area in one of the four pods on death row in 2004. Inmates on death row wear red to signify they are on death row.