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 signed an executive order establishing a commutation advisory board, marking Wisconsin's first step toward ...

Henri Buckner, whose federal prison sentence was commuted by President Biden in 2025, is among four arrested in a ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that he 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 and identity ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the execution of a man on death row. On Tuesday, Ivey announced that Charles L. Burton, 75, would instead serve life in prison without the ...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed two executive orders to restore the state's process for commuting prison sentences.

A North Little Rock man whose life sentence was commuted by President Joe Biden will be resentenced after an appeals court concluded Tuesday that prior convictions were improperly factored into his ...

With President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons to more than 1,500 charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, whatever was remaining of their sentences is now forgiven. The total ...