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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Dorthy Moxley, whose family name became linked with the Kennedys as the 1975 murder of her teenage daughter, Martha, became a decadeslong media sensation, died Tuesday after she was hospitalized last week with the flu,

President-elect Donald Trump did not hold back in his Christmas message, which included telling the 37 people who had their