RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals panel exchanged arguments Monday with lawyers over a still-unresolved November election for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat, immersed in jurisdictional ...

Inside North Carolina prisons, 13 inmates killed themselves last year. Three more died in January. State officials say they ...

Griffin’s “extraordinary request to retroactively change longstanding election rules and thereby disenfranchise more than 60,000 North Carolina voters should confront the federal civil rights ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina ... had 63 condemned inmates in early 2011. It currently has 30. About 20 inmates have been taken off death row and received different prison sentences ...

South Carolina was among the busiest states for executions. A shield law passed last year allowed the supplier of the pentobarbital used to kill inmates to stay secret and prison officials were ...

It bars transgender women from women’s prisons and prohibits federal funds from being used for “any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance ...

Kohn, sentenced last November to seven years in prison for operating a fraudulent tax shelter with his daughter and a North Carolina insurance agent, is an inmate at the Federal Correctional ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for clemency, saying he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in prison ...