A North Carolina judge rules that race played an impermissible role in jury selection for a Black man, challenging his death sentence.

Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermon found race played a major role in the prosecution and sentencing of Hasson Bacote to the death penalty in 2009. Gov. Roy Cooper granted Bacote clemency on Dec. 31, ...

The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...

North Carolina death row inmates may be eligible for resentencing if it is determined that a Black defendant's trial was ...