A decade after dire warnings about security weaknesses, an exodus of veteran agents has left the agency relying on those with ...

Routh's charge of attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate carries a potential life sentence in the event of ...

Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the ...

NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Abraham Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action about President Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of all but three people on federal death row.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after ...

Over the course of his election campaign, Trump vowed to resume federal executions and make more people eligible to receive ...

Less than a month before Trump takes office, Biden removed 37 people from death row who were all convicted of murder charges ...

President Joe Biden announced a significant move to commute the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row.

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

President Biden left in place the capital punishment sentences of just three federal inmates: Robert Bowers, Dzhokar Tsarnaev ...

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