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

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

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

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 ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. More than 2,000 others remain on ...

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

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

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

Countries that retain the death penalty often argue that the public supports it. In Zimbabwe, research helped challenge this ...

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