Tennessee says it is ready to resume death row executions in 2025. The Department of Corrections announced it will use a drug ...

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman welcome special guest Tim ...

President Biden has spared the lives of 37 of 40 federal death row prisoners by commuting their sentences to life in prison.

In an unprecedented action this month, the president announced the commutation of the sentences of 37 of the 40 federal inmates on death row. No president has ever summarily granted clemency to so ...

Prison staff gathered at the main entrance of the building housing the execution chamber at the Huntsville Unit of the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville.(Michael Wyke / AP) Jason Alan ...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Robert Bowers and Dylann Roof were the only three prisoners on federal death row whose sentences were not ...

A former federal prosecutor in the case that sent a man to death row says it is difficult to see a “remorseless murderer” be relieved of his sentence following President Biden’s decision on ...

reducing the state’s death row population by more than 10%. Cooper, who was barred from seeking a third consecutive four-year term, will give way to fellow Democrat Josh Stein on Wednesday when ...

President Joe Biden changed the sentence for most federal death row prisoners on Monday, Dec. 23. Only three of the 40 did not get their sentence commuted. Biden said he wanted to prevent ...