Donald Trump hit out on Tuesday at Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of almost every American federal prisoner on death row, as the US president-elect prepares to replace the Democrat in the ...

In this case, the reduction is to serving out life in prison rather than the prospect of being put to death. Roof, Tsarnaev and Bowers could still be executed.

A federal jury sentenced Mr. Roof to death in 2017. He had admitted his guilt and offered to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison. The Justice Department sought the death ...

Roof was convicted on 33 federal charges after nine people were killed and another was injured in a shooting at a Charleston church.