President Barack Obama surpassed the 1,000 mark for commutations granted during his presidency on Tuesday after shortening sentences for 79 people. Obama has been granting commutations at rapid-fire ...

President Obama commuted the sentences of 58 drug offenders Thursday, 18 of whom were serving life sentences. Forty-five of the inmates were sentenced under cocaine sales charges, with the rest ...

An attorney for Chelsea Manning expressed his gratitude and excitement following the news that President Obama had commuted the sentence of the former Army soldier. During an interview with MSNBC host ...

President Barack Obama speaks during his final presidential news conference, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, on Jan. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Last week, ...

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama granted 330 commutations, the White House announced Thursday, the most commutations given in a single day by a US president. The announcement comes within 24 hours of ...

CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS: A previous version of this story referred imprecisely to the number of commutations granted. Two have been granted through petitions submitted by the Clemency Project ...

President Barack Obama says he shortened the sentences of more than 200 federal inmates this week to help cut the cycle of poverty and put families back together. Almost all the 214 prisoners were ...

President Barack Obama granted clemency to 231 more prisoners Monday, with 153 commutations of sentences and 78 pardons, the most individual acts of clemency granted in the same day, according to the ...

While Obama may be stuck riding out the remainder of his presidency as a lame duck, there are still some things within his power. Obama exercised that power today by granting an unprecedented number ...

Wednesday’s commutations by President Obama, which brings his total number to 562, represent the most granted by a president in a single day since at least 1900, according to the White House blog.