Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

"We need to go on the offense. We don't need to be cowering in our holes," Congressman Keith Self told Newsweek.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mothed one final message before being put to death in Texas Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.