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

On the Saturday morning after Thanksgiving in 2022, a panga piloted by two cousins from Baja California capsized as it ...

Their fates stand in stark contrast to the punishment U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recommended ...

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced it will seek the death penalty for an Oklahoma inmate charged with killing one ...

Mark Maremont is a senior editor with The Wall Street Journal. He focuses on investigative reporting, particularly in the ...

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 ...

A federal judge in Boston is vigorously denying the marathon bomber’s last-ditch accusation that another magistrate must ...

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

Brent Kendall is the Law Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal. A longtime legal affairs reporter, he has covered the Supreme Court and lower courts across the country, as well as the Justice ...

He executed more people in a single term than any president since the 1890s. Now, he wants Mangione on death row.

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to federal charges after he was indicted for allegedly assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO ...

Roof, 31, is one of three condemned men on federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana, along with 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers, who shot and killed 11 congregants in ...