Gov. Roy Cooper announced that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row. He also granted two other ...

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

Dwight Jordan was 18 at the time of his conviction for murder, and his commuted sentence makes him eligible for parole.

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

Time is running out for Texas legislators who want to bring death row inmate Robert Roberson III in person before a House ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he was commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death-row inmates to life in ...

In total, Biden commuted 37 out of 40 death sentences to life without the possibility of parole. The group Human Rights ...

Of 37 federal prisoners whose punishments were reduced to life in prison, two committed murders in Northern Virginia and four killed people elsewhere in the state.

Norris Holder and Billie Allen were both convicted in the 1997 St. Louis bank robbery killing of security guard Richard ...

Oklahoma County's new DA is taking a committee approach to deciding whether a murder case warrants the death penalty.

We are taking a closer look at the convicted killer from Philadelphia whose sentence was commuted and reactions from the ...