Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

The act of clemency puts Trump behind Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman in the ranking for most pardons issued during a modern president’s term, with a couple of notable exceptions.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from a historic ruling in the case of a woman on death row for murder.

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take all lawful and appropriate action to ensure that these offenders are ...

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked ...

Brenda Andrew's lawyers said prosecutors used her sexual history, demeanor and even her thong underwear to convict her of ...

With his opening rounds of memoranda and executive orders, Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden's actions.

Phoenix Police said they learned the suspect had been in a prior relationship with the woman, and evidence showed he had been ...

Calling the current system inhumane and problematic, a state lawmaker wants to give voters the chance to replace the current ...

Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis filed petitions in federal court a week after Biden announced he would remove 37 out of 40 federal inmates from death row.

"It gives them a goal to pursue and a role model to look up to." The gender eligibility row has been one of the most controversial stories from the 2024 Games, with Lin saying she had "shut ...