President Trump granted clemency to more than two dozen people Wednesday, including longtime political allies, reality TV stars and a Louisiana rapper. His decision was influenced ...

Gavin Newsom has withdrawn his request for a clemency investigation. This move now makes the brothers' June hearing before the parole board a chance for Lyle and Erik to be granted an early release.

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson vetoed various provisions of a bill regarding Washington State’s Clemency and Pardons Board (CPB). The Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill-HB 1131 ...

Reality-television hosts, former politicians and a rapper are among those who also received pardons and commutations.

A sex abuse survivor and rights activists in Timor-Leste have urged the nation’s president Jose Ramos-Horta not to grant executive clemency to a defrocked and convicted American former priest. The ...

A former Catholic priest convicted of sex abuse is among 38 people considered for the presidential executive clemency in Timor-Leste, according to the country’s justice minister. The names of 38 ...

Smith has no legal avenues remaining to avoid execution. Gov. Bill Lee has denied Oscar Smith’s request for clemency ahead of his execution scheduled for May 22. A reprieve from Lee was Smith ...

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump administration has sought to move the inmates to a notoriously tough prison. By Zach ...

Eighty-seven Virginians involved in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have received clemency from President Donald Trump. That’s according to a database of Virginia defendants ...

Gavin Newsom withdrew his request on Thursday for clemency investigations into their case, turning a hearing scheduled in June before the parole board into an opportunity for them to be granted ...

President Trump on Wednesday took a slew of clemency actions, including pardoning former Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) and commuting the sentence of a former Chicago gang leader. Trump granted a ...