Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer of the Department of Justice said in a Jan. 18 email to U.S. attorneys that commutations by ...

South Carolina has has put a third inmate to death in four months as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted ...

CT Sen. Richard Blumenthal plans to raise a bill to boost transparency and require notifications during the pardons and ...

Vice-President JD Vance had suggested some of those involved in violence might not get clemency. But Trump pardoned almost all of the nearly 1,600 rioters who had been been convicted or arrested ...

Languages: English. Kentucky Congressional Representative Thomas Massie went on Tim Pool's Timcast IRL podcast to share a letter written to him from now-pardoned Ross Ulbricht that moved him to tears.

In the final hours of President Joe Biden’s term, he granted Leonard Peltier clemency through commutation, allowing him to serve his life sentence at home on the Turtle Mountain Indian ...

Ann Alquist speaks with journalist Brian Bull about the significance of President Biden commuting the life sentence of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. One of the last acts of President Biden before he left office was to commute the sentence of jailed ...

President Joe Biden announced a series of last-minute pardons before leaving office Monday, granting preemptive pardons to ...

“Today’s clemency action provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, as well as outdated sentencing ...

Biden was the seventh president to continue the modern tradition of leaving a letter to his successor. Biden was the sixth president to leave a letter to a successor of another political party and the ...