Pardons

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday the pardons of five men convicted of crimes he believes they did not commit.

Matt Bevin told Kentucky station WHAS Thursday: "If you had been repeatedly sexually violated, as a small child, by an adult, there are going to be repercussions of that physically and medically."

The new governor said the arrests and trials, and in two cases the killings, of the Groveland Four were unjust. Families of the men had worked for the pardons. The accuser maintained she did not lie.