Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases and ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In 2006, a federal jury in Columbus sentenced Daryl Lawrence to death for the murder of Officer Bryan Hurst. The conviction was later upheld by the appellate court, seemingly ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in 2004 ...