Innocent: freed from death row
-Alfred Rivera: Winston-Salem man acquitted of double-murder in 1999 retrial.
-Charles Munsey: Innocent man dies in prison while awaiting retrial (died fall 1999)
-Timothy Hennis: Innocent man released from death row in 1989.
-Samuel Poole: freed during moratorium period in 1974

Likely or possible innocence
-Steven Bishop: awaiting retrial for 1991 Greensboro slaying.  His half-brother later admitted to the killing.
-Anson Avery Maynard: Maynard's death sentence was commuted to life in 1992 because of questions about innocence, yet he remains in prison.

Executed despite doubts about guilt
-Dawud Abdullah Muhammad: Executed in 1999 for double-murder in Pinehurst.  Substantial evidence indicates the crime was committed by a white man with long blond hair.  Muhammad was the first and only inmate since 1977 to go to his death proclaiming his innocence.

Clemency in North Carolina

North Carolina is one of fourteen states in which the governor has the sole authority to grant an execution reprieve or commute a death sentence.

Sentences
commuted:
Marcus Carter: sentence commuted to life without parole by Gov. Hunt because of questions of fairness in the trial.  (11/21/00)

Wendell Flowers: Sentence commuted to life without parole by Gov. Hunt because of questions as to Flowers' level of involvement in the crime. (12/15/99)

Anson Avery Maynard: sentence commuted to life without parole in 1992 by Gov. Martin because of doubts of guilt.  Despite these doubts, Maynard remains in prison.