In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...

An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petition is calling on President Biden “to commute all federal death sentences” ...

The inmate sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2021 after they denied his wife's visitation request because he did not have ...

The Defense Department will appeal a military judge’s ruling that plea agreements struck by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the ...

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other progressive groups are calling on President Joe Biden to abolish the ...

Thirteen inmates were put to death in an unprecedented run of federal executions in the final six months of Trump's first term.

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama ...

Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living ...

A condemned inmate is led out of his east block cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison in San ... for another chance at a lawsuit he filed from southwest Indiana's Terre Haute federal prison in ...

The US Supreme Court has declined to halt the execution set for Friday evening of a Black inmate in South Carolina who ...

Conservation officers in Vigo County are investigating the death of a man who was found unresponsive behind his home Monday. He was later pronounced dead. The officers found 51-year-old Mike ...

of Terre Haute, was found unresponsive behind his home, the news release states. Pastorious was later pronounced dead. “The incident is still under investigation, and the cause of death is ...