Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

An Oklahoma board has rejected clemency for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 home-invasion ...

A Frenchman on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for drug offences left for France on Tuesday, with his lawyer saying he was ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ...

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

In December 2024, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners to life imprisonment without ... for a man who previously served a prison sentence for the killings of two people.

One of Miami’s most notorious gang leaders, who for more than two decades sat on Death Row after four murder convictions, not only had his life spared Wednesday — but learned he may walk out of prison ...

A trial court had sentenced nine BNP activists to death, 25 to life in prison and 13 others to 10 years in prison over the case ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County ...