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

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...

Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...

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

Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the ...

Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the ...

Seven people sentenced to death in the Carolinas were among the more than three-dozen federal death row inmates to have their ...

In his final day in office, Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentence of 15 death row inmates in North Carolina.

On his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death row sentences of 15 people to life without ...

With 15 death row commutations, Gov. Cooper joins a majority of U.S. governorsin limiting the excesses of the death ...