Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier during the getaway attempt. Prosecutors said the brothers carried out the attack to punish the U.S. for wars in Muslim countries.

Manchin panned downgrading the sentences of two men to life in prison for the murder of a West Virginia college student as “horribly misguided and insulting.”

President Joe Biden spared the lives of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row before passing the torch to President-elect Donald Trump. Biden did not pardon the murderers, but rather downgrade

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said.

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing fo

With just weeks left in office, US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates - potentially thwarting President-elect Donald Trump's plans to expand federal executions during his upcoming administration.

Biden preserved the death sentences of three mass murderers but commuted the sentences of 37 other federal death row inmates to life in prison.

Marvin Gabrion was convicted and sentenced to die more than two decades ago for killing a woman who had accused him of rape.

President-elect Trump on Wednesday used a lengthy Christmas Day social media post to tell the 37 people who had their death sentences commuted by President Biden to “go to hell.” “Also, to the 37 most violent criminals,

President-elect Donald Trump, who hopes to expand federal use of the death penalty, condemns President Joe Biden’s decision to commute sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life in