Missouri Gov. Mike Parson commuted the six-year prison sentence of Eric DeValkenaere, who killed an unarmed Black man named Cameron Lamb.

The Justice Department’s prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack — hailed as one of the “largest, most complex, and ...

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said it’s President-elect Trump’s decision to pardon Jan. 6 rioters. Thune ...

Observer readers comment on death sentences in NC, Jimmy Carter, an Israeli-Palestinian conflict class at UNC and Jefferson ...

When Peter Ninemire was freed by presidential clemency from a federal prison where he was serving a 27-year sentence on drug ...

Recently, the White House announced that President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners, all murderers and some multiple murderers, on federal death row. (Yes, while most death ...

The year came to a violent end in Charlotte this week, as six people were killed in the city between Christmas Day and New ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.

Those that have been in the state pen and their lawyers say “what is most unusual about the beatdown of Mr. Brooks is that it ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause ...

President Joe Biden granted clemency consisting of 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations. Paul John Garcia from Las Vegas, New Mexico was granted commutation.

With 15 death row commutations, Gov. Cooper joins a majority of U.S. governorsin limiting the excesses of the death ...