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

A pair of death row inmates have turned down the clemency granted to them by President Joe Biden, choosing to take their ...

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 Agofsky and Len Davis believe the life sentences put them at a legal disadvantage with them planning to seek appeals ...

Davis and another inmate filed an emergency motion in federal court on Dec. 30 seeking an injunction to block having their death sentences commuted to life in prison without parole.

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

Two of the 37 death row inmates who Joe Biden commuted the sentences of are trying to reject the president's clemency.

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

The White House announced in late December that President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners, all murderers and some multiple murderers, on federal death row.