Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result ...

Gov. Tony Evers issued two executive orders this month restoring the commutation process in Wisconsin, opening a window to ...

Mandela Barnes was the only Democrat who, when initially asked, split from the governor’s executive order allowing commutations for murder convictions.

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 ...

Last summer, Gov. Phil Murphy announced a new clemency initiative designed to fast-track the review of certain applications for pardons or commutations. He's issued two "rounds" of actions since then ...

ASHLAND, Ky. — Clemency has come early and often in President Trump’s second term, prompting nearly 10,000 convicts to request pardons or commutations of their prison sentences. Trump has been ...

Beacon Journal readers write about death row, the rubber workers union and a recent front page.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted a forum on Wednesday with the family members of people whose federal death sentences were ...

WASHINGTON — Senior Justice Department officials were left befuddled by the sweeping pardons then-President Biden approved for thousands of convicts days before leaving office earlier this year — and ...