Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...

Rejon Taylor told Newsweek that he had received notice he would be transferred to ADX Florence, a "supermax" facility known ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A ...

While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take ...

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

Trump’s order, coming just hours after he returned to the White House, compels the Justice Department to not only seek the ...

Attorney Gilda Daniels and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett denounce Trump's expansion of the federal death penalty, citing racial disparities and systemic injustices.

While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on ...

Marion Bowman Jr., a 44-year-old inmate, is scheduled to be executed Friday night, marking the first execution in South ...

Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the officially named U.S. Penitentiary Florence Administrative ...