Community members came together to protest the death penalty as the conversation ramps up over its legality in North Carolina ...

North Carolina has 122 inmates on death row – the nation’s fifth largest – but hasn’t carried out an execution since Samuel Flippen was put to death by lethal injection on Aug. 18, 2006. Since then, ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - North Carolina Governor Josh Stein on Friday, Oct. 3, signed House Bill 307, also known as ‘Iryna’s ...

New criminal justice legislation could see the killer of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska be executed by controversial means.

The new law, named for slain rider Iryna Zarutska, ends cashless bail for violent offenders and accelerates death penalty ...

Prisoners on the North Carolina death row make their way back to their cell block at Central Prison in Raleigh in 2002, not long after a series of reforms began sharply reducing the number of ...

North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall (R-Caldwell) presides over session on June 25, 2025. (Photo by Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline) North Carolina lawmakers have passed a wide-ranging crime bill, ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) has signed into law new criminal justice legislation in honor of slain Ukrainian refugee ...

North Carolina Senator Phil Berger and North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall take questions during a press briefing on crime, political violence on Thursday, September 11, 2025 at the General ...

A new effort to restart the death penalty in North Carolina, enact stricter rules for bail and ramp up monitoring of alleged criminals with mental health problems passed the state House of ...

A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to have bipartisan support on Monday until an amendment seeking to resume ...