The men said that, by reducing their sentences to life in prison, President Biden’s act of clemency could hurt their appeals.

Justices will hear arguments on cases that seek to expand “juvenile lifer" law to allow youth offenders serving life to get a ...

In an unusual move, two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted by President Joe ...

The death sentence is justified against a man convicted of the 1989 rape and murder of a woman in Tucson, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday.

A Dadeville jury sentences Derek Hightower of Columbus, Georgia, to death for the brutal murders of Willie and Barbara ...

There was a new district attorney in town, Jose Garza, whose office offered them a deal: plead guilty to a reduced charge of murder, avoid a possible death sentence and serve just 35 years.

A court in China has sentenced a teen boy to life in prison for murdering his classmate, capping a case that sparked debate ...

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

MANKATO — A "series of escalating events," as a judge described it, led to the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old in Mankato in February and a prison sentence for the 18-year-old defendant.

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden have taken an unusual stance.