During Thursday's general assembly session, three state senators introduced SB 94 with a short, direct title: Repeal Death ...

Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A man was arrested Thursday after a missing and endangered Fayetteville woman was found dead ... murder in connection with the death of 25-year-old Heather Marie ...

Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (WNCN) — On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, influencing the makeup of the jury along with ...

JOHNSTON COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- A legal decision handed down in Johnston County could have big impacts for more than 100 prisoners currently on death row in North Carolina. A judge ruled on Friday ...

RALEIGH, N.C. – In a landmark case, a North Carolina judge ruled today that race played an impermissible role in jury selection for Hasson Bacote, a Black man who challenged his death sentence under ...

The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on ...

The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...