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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 people on death row, which means those individuals will have their ...

In his latest act of clemency, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly every incarcerated person on federal death row Dec. 23, including a Buncombe County man convicted and sentenced ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the ...

President-elect Trump promised Tuesday that his Justice Department will "vigorously pursue the death penalty," one day after President Biden announced he had commuted sentences for most of the people ...

Outside of the federal system, there are over 2,000 people in the United States who were convicted in state courts and put on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.