Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases and ...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) on Wednesday reportedly fired two members of his clemency board after they publicly opposed his ...

A few weeks before publicly calling for Ohio to abolish the death penalty, Gov. Mike DeWine quietly commuted a death sentence ...

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 ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump, a ...

WASHINGTON — Serial fabulist George Santos has told a lot of whoppers. But his abrupt release from federal prison after serving less than 3 months of his 7-year sentence is a head-turner many Long ...

Gov. Jared Polis has fired two members of his clemency board who opposed his commutation of Tina Peters’ sentence, according ...

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his ...

Donald Trump is reportedly considering commuting Diddy’s 50-month prison sentence, a move that could set the Hip-Hop mogul free within days. Sean “Diddy” Combs may walk free this week as Donald Trump ...

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 ...

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Peltier, ...