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 ...

In a joint statement released Thursday, state Sen. Vin Gopal, and Assemblywomen Margie Donlon and Luanne Peterpaul, expressed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close up on barbed wire outside a possible prison or jail facility Credit: Richard Theis/EyeEm/Getty In Wisconsin, the last time ...

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 ...

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 ...

With President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons to more than 1,500 charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, whatever was remaining of their sentences is now forgiven. The total ...

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

The children burned to death while strapped inside. Jurors heard the evidence and unanimously convicted Montalvo of murder, felony murder, and arson in 1996. They rejected the claim that the fire was ...

The Monmouth County woman was seeking a new trial after developments in fire science raised questions about expert testimony ...

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 ...

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 ...