Days after speaking with Pope Francis, President Joe Biden announced Dec. 23 that he would commute most existing federal ...

nor four others condemned to die on military death row. More than any other historical figure associated with the life and ...

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row. He's converting their punishments ...

Opponents of capital punishment had urged the president to commute death row sentences before Donald Trump — who promised to restart federal executions — takes office.

The outgoing president uses his pardon power to convert their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before ...

Move seen as effort to thwart Trump from jumpstarting executions; Biden keeps capital punishment for three men convicted of ...

The US president has spared the lives of 37 of the 40 people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and ...

Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, has reacted to a video showing Russian soldiers ...