The federal death penalty was first enacted in 1790 to punish certain federal crimes, such as treason, piracy and ...

BOSTON — Boston U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy announced this week that he is stepping down, effective Friday, January 17. It’s ...

A prisoner who killed a Benton County man and a fellow inmate in 2004 and had his death sentence commuted by President Joe ...

Shannon Wayne Agofsky and Len Davis both filed emergency petitions prevent their death sentences from being commuted to life ...

Two men who were among the 37 federal inmates on death row whose sentences were commuted by President Biden are rejecting ...

At issue is the belief by the two inmates – both of whom maintain their innocence –  that Biden’s commutation puts them at a ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 of the prisoners on federal death row in response to the lobbying ...

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Thirty-one years after being sentenced to death, a Fairfax County killer had his sentence changed to life in prison.

President Joe Biden, or whoever is running the White House, grotesquely abused the pardon power, yet again.