Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Tuesday commuted the sentences of all 17 people on the state’s death row, changing their punishment from execution to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The Oregon Department of Corrections is expected to announce Friday that it will close death row and reassign the 27 men who live there to other housing in the state prison system. The agency has ...

This summer, the Oregon Department of Corrections will empty death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem and send the 27 condemned men who live there, some for decades, to general ...

Most of the 35 people on Oregon's death row have intellectual disabilities, mental illness, brain injury or were convicted as adolescents, according to a recently released report.

David Bartol, 45, who was sentenced to death Nov. 10. He will become the 35th person on Oregon death row and the fifth person since the state reintroduced capital punishment to be given the death ...

Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is commuting the sentences of all 17 people on death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to a news release Tuesday from her office.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Tuesday that she would commute the sentences of 17 inmates currently on death row. There has been a moratorium on executions in Oregon since 2011.

Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown will clear out death row before departing her post, declaring all 17 of the state’s inmates awaiting execution will have their sentences commuted to life in pr… ...

Outgoing Democratic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday she'd be commuting the sentences of 17 people remaining on the state's death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

After commuting the sentences of inmates on death row, Governor Kate Brown ordered the execution chamber at the state penitentiary in Salem to be dismantled. This decision was expectedly met with ...

Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is commuting the sentences of all 17 people on death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to a news release Tuesday from her office ...