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To say that it was an interesting year is to say that the Earth rotates around the sun, something that isn’t as slam dunk as it would appear.

As one of his last acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life ...

Just days after Tennessee announced it had a new manual for executing death row inmates, the state's top prison officials ...

Joe Biden used a blunt tool to nullify an entire section of law when he gave clemency to the man who murdered a Columbus ...

President Joe Biden’s recent pardon of David Runyon, a man once on death row for his role in a 2007 murder-for-hire plot, has sparked renewed discussion about the use of the death penalty in Virginia ...

In the wake of the appeals court ruling, GOP lawmaker Mike Lawler slammed the president for allowing such a plea deal to take ...

Under President Joe Biden’s commutation logic, if a death row inmate, whose sentence is commuted to life in prison, and while ...

The U.S. has transferred Guantanamo detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi to Tunisia after 22 years. Discover the details of ...

North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said ...

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