Now we'd like to turn to a relatively arcane issue that often surfaces in the closing days of an administration - executive clemency. President Obama is days away from leaving the White House. And ...

Last month, President Obama announced a new series of pardons and commutations for federal prisoners, just like he has for the past three years, just before the First Family leaves for their Christmas ...

President Obama announced that today he is commuting the sentences of 95 federal inmates, ramping up his use of the pardon power after years of criticism that he wasn’t doing enough. Most of those ...

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.

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O.J. Simpson is asking President Barack Obama for clemency, saying he may have brain cancer and should be allowed to leave his Nevada jail cell, the Washington Times reports. Suggested Reading ...