Alcatraz was and remains as much an idea as a place. James V. Bennett, the director of the Bureau of Prisons for nearly the ...

Brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon that killed three people and ...

A federal judge in Boston is vigorously denying the marathon bomber’s last-ditch accusation that another magistrate must reexamine the killer’s death penalty sentencing. In a stinging rebuke, Judge ...

Massachusetts has been home to some of the country's most infamous criminal trials. According to a new study, the state also ...

As the city marks the 12th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sits on federal death row for admittingly detonating bombs at the finish line that killed three people and ...

Tsarnaev’s lawyers allege two jurors were biased when they agreed to sentence him to death in June of 2015 for “using weapons of mass destruction” at the marathon finish line. The First Circuit Court ...

Biden, who is known to be the first president outwardly against the use of the death penalty, commuted the sentences of 37 ...

Supreme Court could reimpose Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.