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One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009, a ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

Rejon Taylor, one of the men on federal death row, has told Newsweek he is "overjoyed and grateful" after his death sentence ...

Jason Alan Thornburg showed no emotion as the judge read his death sentence aloud. A few jurors, who had decided the ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the ...

President Joe Biden applied DEI to all areas of his administration, but in its waning days, he spared 37 murderers and ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...

An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state's highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the past to have his ...

On his way out of office, former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of death row inmates, as the Tar Heel State has halted executions amid litigation over the past 20 years.

Tennessee says it is ready to resume death row executions in 2025. The Department of Corrections announced it will use a drug for lethal injections.

Following President Joe Biden’s commutations of 37 men sentenced to death, some renewed focus is now on Mississippi’s death ...