A Texas judge has granted the state's motion to dismiss District Court Judge Natalia Cornelio after she was accused of bias ...

Two one-time prisoners at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, who were convicted of murdering a ...

Rejon Taylor awoke to the sound of voices outside his death row cell just after 5 a.m. on Monday ... We don’t have ads, so we depend on our members to help us hold the powerful to account.

Three inmates are still on death row because their crimes were so heinous that Joe Biden refused to lessen their sentences. Today, the US president explained he would commute the sentences of 37 ...

The Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row USA report showed 2,180 people with pending death sentences this year, down from 3,682 in 2000. Missouri’s peak year was 1997, when 96 people were on death row.

The Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row USA report showed 2,180 people with pending death sentences this year, down from 3,682 in 2000. Missouri’s peak year was 1997, when 96 people were on death row.

President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row but declined to save the ... reports on national stories across the United States with a focus on criminal justice.

Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last ... said in a statement to USA TODAY. "The president’s power to commute their death sentences is grounded in his ...

According to the Legal Defense Fund, as of January of 2024, roughly 40% of the inmates on death row in the United States were Black, 42% were white and 14% were Hispanic. Another 3% were Asian or ...

"Today, I feel compelled to ask all of you to pray for the inmates on death row in the United States," the Pope said at the time, according to the report. "Let us pray that their sentences may be ...