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 ...

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

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion which made it possible for death row inmate Robert Roberson not to be ...

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

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

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

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his pledge to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty, taking aim at President ...

President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 death row inmates ignited a fierce debate about the morality of ...

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

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