Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

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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 ...

Elizabeth Holmes, once Silicon Valley's youngest self-made billionaire, now seeks presidential mercy from a Texas prison cell ...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Biden ...

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 ...

In the seven years Gov. Jared Polis has held pardon and clemency powers, he’s wiped away thousands of marijuana convictions, ...

The children burned to death while strapped inside. Jurors heard the evidence and unanimously convicted Montalvo of murder, ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI – A Saginaw woman is seeking a commutation of the life sentence she is serving for the 1986 murder of a man in Flint, claiming she acted in self-defense. Meanwhile, McLaren Flint ...

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 ...

President Trump commuted the sentence of the so-called “king” of Medicaid fraud — who drove a Ferrari, crisscrossed the country on private jets and bribed the head men’s basketball coach at the ...