At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer granted five clemency requests on Tuesday, including sentence reductions for two people convicted of ...

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 ...

David Gentile spent just days in prison for his conviction in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud ...

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 ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — Far more Iowans are receiving pardons from Gov. Kim Reynolds than her predecessor, but ...

In Wisconsin, the last time there was a commutation — a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant clemency — it was during Republican Tommy Thompson’s administration ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI – A Saginaw woman is seeking a commutation of the life sentence she is serving for the 1986 murder of a man in Flint, claiming she acted in self-defense. Meanwhile, McLaren Flint ...

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