One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009, a ...

Jason Alan Thornburg showed no emotion as the judge read his death sentence aloud. A few jurors, who had decided the ...

Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...

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

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

A Robeson County man whose been on death for decades after being convicted of killing his stepfather had his sentence ...

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

In his final day in office, Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina.

The 37 federal death row inmates commuted by President Biden on Monday targeted victims across all facets of American society ...