California
Two San Fernando Valley men, who were sentenced to death over a decade ago for killing five people, have had their sentences commuted to life in prison by President Biden.
World & Nation
Donald Trump criticized President Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole
President Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.
Opinion
The Justice Department must decide whether to appeal a court decision blocking a death sentence of the surviving Boston Marathon bomber. It should not.
Politics
President Trump’s Inauguration Day speeches were punctuated by several false or misleading claims, many of which he has made before.
A federal appeals court has ordered the judge who oversaw Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial to investigate the defense’s claims of juror bias.
The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial completed its first day of deliberations Wednesday afternoon, seeking to find what the judge described as the “proper punishment” for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, after hearing prosecutors demand a death sentence for “killing innocents” and defense lawyers urge them “to choose life.”
To the editor: When the Times’ editorialists conclude their plea to the jury (and all Americans) that the conviction of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all 30 counts for his participation in the massacre at the Boston Marathon should not result in his execution, they suggest that killing him would exhibit the mentality of the terrorist.
Two friends of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were sentenced Friday to terms ranging from three years to 42 months in prison for helping Tsarnaev and his older brother after the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260.
To the editor: It is false to assume that solely because of the imposition of the death penalty, there will be lengthy appeals of this case — not because that lengthy process will not take place but because the same lengthy appeals would have followed even if convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been given life without parole.