Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates
President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A convicted Philadelphia mass murderer and drug lord is off death row after President Biden announced he's reclassifying the sentences of 37 people in federal prison to life without parole.
President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences, commuting their sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Kaboni Savage, convicted of killing multiple people in Philadelphia, is one of them.
Rendell Hoagland and Cindy Warren, the Chester County couple whose abuse, police say, led to the death of 12-year-old Malinda Hoagland, were arraigned Thursday morning. The Chester County DA's office says Hoagland and Warren were officially notified that they are facing the death penalty.
Andre Gordon Jr. will be held at the Bucks County Correctional Facility without bail after he waived his extradition in front of a Mercer County, New Jersey judge. His next hearing is set for April 16.
Alabama went through with its planned execution on Thursday of Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was the first condemned inmate in the U.S. put to death using nitrogen gas.
A possible plea deal could help some 9/11 defendants avoid the death penalty.
Pennsylvania's governor says the state should join 25 other states such as New Jersey in outlawing the death penalty.
