Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of murder to life in prison without parole on Tuesday, reducing the state’s ...

Manchin panned downgrading the sentences of two men to life in prison for the murder of a West Virginia college student as ...

Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) has sharply criticized President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of Brandon ...

Death penalty opponents on Thursday launched a new effort to spare Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers and two others ...

David Anthony Runyon was found guilty in 2009 in the murder-for-hire slaying of Cory Allen Voss outside a Langley Federal ...

President Joe Biden has granted executive clemency to nearly all of the country’s death row inmates, a move affecting 37 ...

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

Essonie “Soni” Lennon was convicted in July of first-degree murder and other counts in the killing of 24-year-old Michael ...

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.

Biden commuted the death sentences of Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks, who were accused of kidnapping and killing Samantha ...

Six convicted murderers whose crimes happened in the Carolinas will serve life in prison instead of facing the death penalty.