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 ...

There's a reason presidents usually wait to issue controversial pardons or prison sentence commutations until the waning weeks, days or even hours of their terms. Outgoing presidents anticipate that ...

In the commonwealth, as the saying goes, “life means life.” First and second degree murder charges carry a mandatory life sentence without parole. In 1976, 29-year-old Thurmond Berry faced murder ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Although the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole said it would not conduct a competency inquiry during the commutation hearing for death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies, much of the ...

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Oklahoma’s Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones just hours before his scheduled execution on Thursday. Given the overwhelming support for capital punishment in ...

President Bush's commutation of the Libby sentence is another disconnect within this administration. In the president's statement explaining why he commuted the sentence, he says he respects the legal ...

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Melvin Lee Tillman, one of Portland’s most prolific burglars, headed off to prison in 2019 for what was supposed to be more than six years for a spree of break-ins, but he walked out last June thanks ...