Potatoes: God’s Gift to Mankind (Or Maybe Just to Me ... A method of death is announced. There’s often a last-minute plea for mercy. A last meal is revealed. There are official designated ...

Days earlier, just before Christmas, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the executions of 37 prisoners, responding to pleas from Pope Francis and other death penalty opponents. Three infamous ...

(RNS) — In the final hours of 2024, North Carolina’s outgoing governor, Roy Cooper, commuted 15 death sentences, reducing by 10% the fifth-largest death row in the country — 121 of the state ...