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

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

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

Bowie was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Calvin Lee Wilson and Nelson Roger Shuford ...

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.

More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith, the state has announced a new lethal ...

The family of bank teller Donna Major were quick to blast the commutations, which were ordered on Dec. 23 by President Joe ...

President Joe Biden commuted the federal death sentences of 37 inmates Monday, including three North Carolina inmates sentenced for violent killings. Aquilia Marcivicci Barnette, Richard Allen Jackson ...

Aquila Marcivicci Barnette is a 50 year-old death row inmate who sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment by President Biden in a raft of pardonings before he leaves office in January. Barnette ...

WASHINGTON—President Biden is considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on the federal government’s death row, people familiar with the matter said, a move that ...

A growing number of groups have asked the president to spare the lives of the 40 prisoners on federal death row by commuting their sentences, too. In reporting that story, NPR's Chiara Eisner ...