WINSTON SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — On Governor Roy Cooper’s final day in office Tuesday, he commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without possibility of parole.
A Winston-Salem family is speaking out after the man convicted in their loved one’s case 25 years ago was on that list and granted clemency.
Michael Miller’s brother Murray Miller says he and his brother were very close. They were 12 months apart in age.
His brother said his family is still hurting from the loss of Michael.
“Mike was full of energy, full of life, very vibrant,” Murray said.
Jan. 24 would have been his brother’s 58th birthday.
“He would always pride the fact that we were the same age for six days … We would celebrate our birthdays together all the way up into our adult years,” Murray said.
Michael was 31 years old when he was shot several times at his apartment complex on West First Street in Winston-Salem in Sept. 1998.
There was an argument earlier in the night at a pool party at Michael’s apartment complex that continued over to his apartment where he was shot.