Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who faces more than seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, revealed this week that he will be seeking clemency from ...

President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and pardoning 39 others convicted of ...

FASANO, Italy — President Biden says he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the eventual sentence that his son Hunter will receive for his federal felony conviction on gun crimes. Biden, ...

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Connecticut’s Republican senators in April held a press conference to praise the pause in commutation hearings. Hearings started again last week under a revamped and tighter policy. Credit: Photo from ...

In simple terms, a commutation reduces a criminal penalty. This may include shortening a prison sentence or replacing a death sentence with life imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, which forgives a crime ...

Earlier this month, the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles indefinitely suspended commutation, the process through which incarcerated individuals apply to have their sentences reconsidered.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Taberon Honie, who was sentenced to death for the violent killing of his ex-girlfriend's mother, Claudia Benn, is appearing before the Utah Board of Pardons & Parole over a two ...

An interesting email from a lawyer who once tried to get a commutation for a client facing the death penalty. He got nowhere, of course. From a law-blog: On March 2003, for the first and only time in ...