The number of death penalty trials in North Carolina is dropping.Only one person in the state was sentenced to die in 2013. Thirty-three-year-old Mario Andrette McNeill was convicted last spring ...

Elmer Ray McNeill Jr., 42, was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder in the deaths of Michael Truelove, 20, and John Ray, 27, who were closing the north Raleigh grocery store when they were ...

He had been on death row for 15 years when, in August of 2009, the North Carolina legislature, dominated at the time by Democrats, passed the Racial Justice Act, which sought to reckon with a ...

Death row inmate Marcus Robinson listening as Judge Greg Weeks found that racial bias played a role in his trial on Friday, April 20, 2012, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Shawn Rocco/Raleigh ...

RALEIGH, N.C. – A long-serving prisoner on North Carolina’s death row had his sentence changed to life imprisonment today, following an abrupt turn-around by state prosecutors who will no longer seek ...