"While this is truly distressing news on a personal level for my family, it also feels like a complete dismissal and undermining of the federal justice system," Marissa Gibson said. "Lawrence's sentence was imposed by a jury, and it should be upheld as such."
Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill U.S. citizens.
President Joe Biden signed into law legislation sent to him by Congress that amends the United States Code to correct what had long gone unnoticed and designate the bald eagle — familiar to many because of its white head, yellow beak and brown body — as the national bird.
According to the Journal's report, Biden's first called Defense Secretary Lloyd Austinabout the drones on December 12.
Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners sought and received access to then-vice president Joe Biden’s political power, according to a GOP impeachment report.
The National Defense Authorization Act has a provision barring the military's insurance from covering gender-affirming care for service members' children.
The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof.
Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not the hot-button political issue it was during the 1980s and ’90s,
A North Carolina man convicted of the 1996 murder of his ex-girlfriend in Roanoke and the murder of another man in Charlotte, North Carolina, had his death sentence commuted by President Biden on Monday.
President Joe Biden recently delivered what the White House called “a legacy speech.” It wasn’t his last. He appears determined, as he was before he gave way to Kamala Harris on the campaign trail, to remind audiences of the big and consequential ...
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers, who killed 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue, were among those whose death penalties were not commuted.
First Lady Jill Biden opted for festive inspiration for her latest event ahead of the Christmas holiday on Friday in Washington, D.C. The first lady joined her husband, President Joe Biden, for a visit with patients and families at Children’s National Hospital and read the book “The Night Before Christmas.”