Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 ...

Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion which made it possible for death row inmate Robert Roberson not to be ...

Seven people sentenced to death in the Carolinas were among the more than three-dozen federal death row inmates to have their ...

Two days before Christmas, Velda Robinson felt like she was robbed of long-awaited justice when she heard her daughter's ...

President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 death row inmates ignited a fierce debate about the morality of ...

Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the ...

The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley said President Biden’s decision to commute the sentences of nearly all the people on federal death row ...

President Biden is commuting the sentences for 37 of the 40 convicted murderers on federal death row, reclassifying them to ...

President Biden left in place the capital punishment sentences of just three federal inmates: Robert Bowers, Dzhokar Tsarnaev ...