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

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

Opponents of capital punishment had urged the president to commute death row sentences before Donald Trump — who promised to ...

The commutation decision falls short of Biden’s original, and unprecedented, broader 2020 campaign promise to seek to ...

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder ...

Only three inmates were left to face the death penalty, including convicted Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and ...

Among the three federal inmates remaining on federal death row is 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The pope, civil liberties group support decision, while some Republican congressmen among those angry at the choice ...

WASHINGTON—President Biden, citing moral and policy objections to capital punishment, said he was commuting the death ...

Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions are sharing a range of ...

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

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to ...