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 ...

In a joint statement released Thursday, state Sen. Vin Gopal, and Assemblywomen Margie Donlon and Luanne Peterpaul, expressed ...

President Donald Trump issued a flurry of pardons in recent days, including for the father of a large donor to his super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico and a woman whose sentence he commuted ...

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 ...

President Trump has officially commuted the federal sentence of James Phillip Womack, the son of U.S. Rep. Steve Womack.

Betty Dickey recalls the angry young woman at the beginning of a 50-year prison sentence, causing trouble for herself and ...

Her passing came just days after President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of the couple’s son, James ...

One of former New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s final act in office included 148 clemency actions for convicted criminals. Among them, four women found guilty of murder.Murphy announced the final round of ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump commuted the sentence of the so-called “king” of Medicaid fraud — who drove a Ferrari, crisscrossed the country on private jets and bribed the head men’s basketball coach at the ...