Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result ...

Democrats on Capitol Hill are sounding alarms over the potential commutation of an election denier and convicted felon’s ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, who was not in the building when the victim ...

From left: Lt. Gov. Austin Davis (Commonwealth Media Services); Gail Stallworth (courtesy of Cornelius Harp); then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro at a Board of Pardons meeting (via YouTube). Gail ...

Donald Trump has commuted the federal sentence of Larry Hoover, the infamous former leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang in Chicago. Hoover, now 74, was serving six life sentences in a federal ...

President Donald Trump said Friday evening he had just signed a commutation releasing scandal-plagued former congressman George Santos from prison "immediately." Santos was sentenced to more than ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the execution of a man on death row. On Tuesday, Ivey announced that Charles L. Burton, 75, would instead serve life in prison without the ...

President Donald Trump commuted Larry Hoover’s multiple life sentences to time served on Wednesday. Actions speak loudly. What does that commutation say? I will try to answer that question as a former ...

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