Imprisonment and detention in the United States

An order commuting the death penalty to life in prison without possibility of parole was signed by Joe Biden for 37 of 40 people sentenced to death, he said in a statement posted on the White House website.

The Serbian Parliament has voted amendments to the Penal Code to abolish the 30- to 40-year prison sentence and introduce life imprisonment for the worst crimes, Tanjug reported.

The changes to the Balkan country's criminal law were approved with 159 votes in the 250-member assembly. 

A Chicago police officer and two hospital workers were killed Monday by a gunman who carried out a grisly assault at a city hospital.