US President Joe Biden has announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row in America, converting their punishments to life imprisonment. The move comes just ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, ...

The bill, authored by state Rep. Robert Morris (R-Fort Wayne), would repeal the existing death penalty statute and commute ...

Indiana Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne, recently filed legislation to repeal the death penalty in Indiana and had asked Gov.

The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of ...

There was an uptick in death sentences handed down and death penalties carried out in 2024 over 2023 but it was also the 10th ...

Nine states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah—carried out executions this year, as a Newsweek map shows. If an execution scheduled for Thursday in ...

Mary and Bob Winnecke’s daughter Natalie Fulkerson was murdered in 1994. Her killer, Matthew Eric Wrinkles, was the last to ...

Indiana executed Joseph Corcoran in near-secret Wednesday morning, highlighting a worrying death penalty state law trend ...

According to the Indiana Department of Correction, Corcoran's last words were, "Not really, let's get this over with." ...

Joseph Corcoran, aged 49, was put to death by lethal injection and was declared dead at 12:44 AM (0644 GMT) at the Indiana ...

Joseph Corcoran, 49, was jailed in 1997 over the fatal shootings of his brother, sister's fiancé and two other men - he also ...