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Gov. Roy Cooper speaks with press at Claxton Elementary in Greensboro. (Carolyn de Berry for The Assembly)

Gov. Roy Cooper oversaw 27 executions as attorney general. But over the last eight years in the governor’s mansion, he’s has been tight-lipped about the issue. […]

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.

Anne Blythe, a former reporter for The News & Observer, has reported on courts, criminal justice, and an array of topics in North Carolina for more than three decades.