An Alabama man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting two people in 2020. Derrick Hightower was sentenced Thursday ...

The execution room at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Federal Bureau of Prisons/Distributed by the AP Share When President Joe Biden last week spared the lives of 37 prisoners on ...

Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence was commuted by President Joe Biden last week. Taylor was sentenced to ...

Tarrant County now leads Dallas County in the number of people awaiting execution, according to state prison data and court ...

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

Donald Trump has seized on Joe Biden’s commutation of the death penalty for 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row to tout his bloodthirsty support for capital punishment. The incoming ...

Dec. 28—President Joe Biden's statement announcing his decision to commute the sentences of 37 or the 40 prisoners on federal death row to life in prison without possibility of parole was as ...

President Joe Biden did the right thing by nearly emptying federal death row, though he should have gone further. Gov. Roy Cooper should follow suit and empty North Carolina’s death row.

Oklahoma’s death row is dwindling with each execution. No court in the state has imposed a death sentence since May 13, 2022, when a Tulsa County judge followed a jury’s recommendation and ...

CONWAY, S.C. (WMBF) - The decision to remove a man from federal death row for a deadly Conway bank robbery is still sending shockwaves throughout Horry County. “I wish that, before people would ...

A convicted killer who ruthlessly gunned down two South Carolina bank employees in 2017 has demanded to be released from prison days after President Biden saved him from death row.

Jasper Colt USA TODAY NETWORK President Joe Biden did the right thing by nearly emptying federal death row, though he should have gone further. Gov. Roy Cooper should follow suit and empty North ...