President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and pardoning 39 others convicted of ...
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, President Joe Biden was responsible for the biggest single-day act of clemency in U.S. history, commuting 1,500 sentences and issuing 39 pardons, including three for people ...
Iowans who have loved ones in prison came to the Statehouse Monday to ask lawmakers to change the state’s process for considering commutation requests from those serving life sentences without the ...
Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Over recent months, pardons, clemency, and commutation have been hot-button topics when discussing politics and law, and they will likely continue to be in the future. In ...
President Biden addresses the Classroom to Careers education summit in the White House East Room. (Photo credit: Andrew Leyden) In a historic move, President Biden’s decision to commute the sentences ...
The family members of people who have been murdered stood beside Republican lawmakers Tuesday, calling on the Connecticut State Board of Pardons and Paroles to halt the process of shortening sentences ...
FLINT, MI -- Nearly 40 years after Linda J. Nunn was convicted of fatally shooting a federal bank examiner during a sex-for-money scheme in Flint, she’s asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to commute her ...