President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his pledge to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty, taking aim at President ...

If [Biden] disapproved of the applicable federal law, he should have tried to change it democratically – not swept it aside,” ...

The Democratic president also faced criticism from some anti-death penalty activists who said he didn't go far enough, ...

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to ...

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

President Joe Biden’s announcement that he’s taking 37 people off federal death row resulted in praise from some families and ...

He left intact the death sentences of the men convicted of "terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder" in the 2015 Charleston ...

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

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – In a historic move early Monday, President Joe Biden commuted the federal death sentences of 37 people ...

Former federal prosecutor Derek Shoemake, who worked a death row case, speaks out on the difficulty of seeing President Biden commute the sentence of a "remorseless murderer." ...

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions are sharing a range of ...