The commutations affected 37 individuals on federal death row. Their sentences were reduced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

President Biden is considering commuting the death sentences of most — if not all — of the 40 men currently on federal death row for murder, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

Most death-row inmates who received a reprieve from Biden are housed in Indiana prison. Sarah Nelson, Indianapolis Star. Mon, December 23, 2024 at 8:38 PM UTC. 10 min read.

Of the 40 inmates on federal death row, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org, Biden is commuting 37 men sentenced to death, reclassifying their sentences to life without the possibility of parole.

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 ...

5 U.S. death row inmates were executed in one week, the most in decades Alabama’s lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala. (Dave Martin / Associated Press) ...

Richard Gerald Jordan has been put to death for the 1976 murder and kidnapping of Edwina Marter, a mom-of-two, nearly 50 ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri 's status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is running out of inmates to execute.

The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...