WASHINGTON — Serial fabulist George Santos has told a lot of whoppers. But his abrupt release from federal prison after serving less than 3 months of his 7-year sentence is a head-turner many Long ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance ...

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 Wisconsin, the last time there was a commutation — a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant ...

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his ...

A corrupt New Jersey businessman who used gold bars to bribe former Sen. Bob Menendez paid $1 million to a Washington, D.C., lobbyist to try to ask for clemency from President Donald Trump, three ...

Former New York Republican Congressman George Santos is out of prison after President Trump commuted his sentence Friday. NPR's Leila Fadel asks New York Times reporter Michael Gold how it happened.

Disgraced former Rep. George Santos, R-NY, took to social media Saturday to thank President Donald Trump for commuting his prison sentence, saying the commander in chief’s “kindness” and “generosity” ...

Disgraced former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., took to social media on Saturday to thank President Donald Trump for commuting his prison sentence, saying the commander-in-chief's "kindness" and ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied commutation Tuesday for Hubert Wilkinson, who is serving three life sentences in the 1970 killing of Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Howard Crumley.