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 ...

A North Little Rock man whose life sentence was commuted by President Joe Biden will be resentenced after an appeals court concluded Tuesday that prior convictions were improperly factored into his ...

UPDATE (June 13, 2024, 6:06 p.m. ET): President Joe Biden said Thursday that he won’t commute his son Hunter Biden’s sentence. I confess that I hadn’t considered the possibility of a Hunter Biden ...

Iouri Mikhel filed a petition seeking to block his sentence from being commuted from death to life imprisonment without parole.

Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, who are ...

Discover how commutation agreements work, including methods to value claims and discharge reinsurance obligations, ensuring financial stability and risk management.

On Jan. 17, 2017, President Obama made perhaps the highest-profile clemency decision of his presidency, in its final hours. Namely, he granted a commutation to Chelsea Manning, the U.S. Army soldier ...

Fact-Check: A viral post falsely states that the Supreme Court has issued direction to reduce the recovery period for pension ...

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 ...

Former Rep. George Santos, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, is seeking clemency from President Trump, who ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A commutation hearing will happen for Ralph Menzies. Menzies execution by firing squad is just over five weeks away, on September 5th. In an order published to their website ...

Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases and ...