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Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row

Dec. 24, 2024 17:34 PM EST

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. Trump...

Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations

Dec. 23, 2024 18:16 PM EST

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences. Biden converted the sentences of 37...

Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions

Dec. 23, 2024 18:11 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes...

Karen Read's defense pushes to get charges dropped in her murder case

Oct. 24, 2024 21:12 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — Attorneys for Karen Read filed a motion to the state's highest court Thursday in an attempt to bolster earlier arguments that two of her charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend should be dismissed. Their brief was in response to one filed by...