This is what C.S. Lewis called "the humanitarian view of punishment." Depriving a murderer of liberty is not a penalty equal ...

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

In response to the announcement from the Biden administration that 37 men currently on federal death row will have their ...

Biden signed 50 bills into law on Christmas Eve, including a proposal backed by Paris Hilton and a measure seeking to curb campus hazing.

NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Abraham Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action about President Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of all but three people on federal death row.

Recent polling shows support for the death penalty at a five-decade low, and half of the population thinks the death penalty ...

State and congressional lawmakers in Louisiana helped lead the effort to get the Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 across both chambers of Congress. President Joe Biden has commuted the death ...

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

Marvin Gabrion, a Michigan inmate sitting on death row for the 1997 murder of Rachel Timmerman, had his death sentence commuted by President Joe Biden.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to reinstate and aggressively pursue federal executions, days after President Joe ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he was commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death-row inmates to life in ...

Check-it: Four men who are on federal death row for crimes committed in Missouri have had their sentences commuted by ...