Davis and another inmate filed an emergency motion in federal court on Dec. 30 seeking an injunction to block having their death sentences commuted to life in prison without parole.
Thirty-one years after being sentenced to death, a Fairfax County killer had his sentence changed to life in prison.
President Biden commuted the sentences of nearly all federal inmates on death row, with the exception of three who did not receive clemency.
The president stated that the commutations are consistent with the moratorium his administration has imposed on federal ...
Why the distinction? Those not escaping death for their murderous crimes are Dylann Roof, who murdered nine people in 2015 at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., Boston Marathon bomber ...
Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the ...
In the ensuing shootout, Tamerlan was killed and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was injured. He was charged with the usage of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, in addition to aiding and abetting ...
Donald Trump hit out on Tuesday at Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of almost every American federal prisoner on death row, as the US president-elect prepares to replace the Democrat in the ...
President-elect Trump promised to resume federal executions upon taking office for a second term after a moratorium on the ...
Biden's commutations leave three men on federal death row: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who carried out the Boston Marathon Bombing, Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in ...
An Oklahoma man sentenced to death for killing a Texas couple as they camped in the Sooner State had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden.
Trump said relatives of victims are angry that Biden spared the lives of some of the “worst killers in our country,” including inmates who killed police and military officers.