Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley said President Biden’s decision to commute the sentences of nearly all the people on federal death row ...

Trump took aim Tuesday at Biden’s decision to commute the sentences of nearly all federal death row prisoners, adding to the ...

Over the course of his election campaign, Trump vowed to resume federal executions and make more people eligible to receive ...

Less than a month before Trump takes office, Biden removed 37 people from death row who were all convicted of murder charges ...

The Democratic president also faced criticism from some anti-death penalty activists who said he didn't go far enough, ...

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

President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, ...

Former federal prosecutor Derek Shoemake, who worked a death row case, speaks out on the difficulty of seeing President Biden commute the sentence of a "remorseless murderer." ...

President-elect Trump vowed Tuesday to direct his Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue the death penalty in the wake of ...

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.