(CNN) — On his first day in office, President Donald Trump granted sweeping clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Trump pardoned or ...

President Biden needs to explain his death-sentence commutations “to our faces,” says the furious brother of a young female naval officer murdered by one of the “despicable’’ clemency recipients. “I’d ...

Clemency, the power granted to the governor of a state to reduce or commute a criminal sentence, is a complex legal process that often comes into focus during high-profile capital punishment cases. In ...

Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was released on parole on Monday from the La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo. This release follows a clemency grant from Governor Jared Polis, ...

The attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell sent *** message to the president today, grant clemency and Maxwell will testify and clear the president of any wrongdoing. Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted sex ...

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people and is pardoning 39 Americans in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board (PPB) denied clemency for death row inmate Wendell Arden Grissom on Tuesday, clearing the final hurdle before his scheduled execution on March 20, 2025. Grissom, ...

Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez is escorted by Members of the Police Special Forces to be extradited to U.S. to face charges of taking bribes from drug traffickers at Honduran ...

President Biden's act of clemency, the largest in a single day, has left some congressional Republicans unhappy, while a number of Democrats are hoping to see it expanded. "I’m not surprised at this ...