Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.

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President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” after President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences ...

(AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly ...

Two men from Illinois were among the 37 people spared from death row by President Joe Biden on Monday. One was a doctor who killed a witness in a fraud case and the other an ex-Marine who killed a ...

IN JUST A FEW MINUTES. PRESIDENT BIDEN IS COMMUTING THE SENTENCES OF 37 OF THE 40 PEOPLE ON FEDERAL DEATH ROW. BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV IS NOT ON THAT LIST. THIS MEANS THAT JUST ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just ...