In the seven years Gov. Jared Polis has held pardon and clemency powers, he’s wiped away thousands of marijuana convictions, ...

President Donald Trump has frequently made news by granting pardons. A pardon is one way the president can grant clemency.

Clemency gives the president the power to pardon or commute sentences. How has Donald Trump used his power in his first year ...

President Joe Biden has used this power to pardon his son, Hunter, following the younger Biden's conviction on federal gun and tax charges. On Thursday, the president used his power to issue 39 ...

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, is the latest person convicted of criminal fraud to ask Trump to commute ...

Pardons come as president and Republicans seem intent on investigating fraud in Democratic-run states ...

Phil Murphy's clemency decisions, especially for a mother who killed her children, have stirred deep bipartisan anger in New ...

When former GOP Congressman George Santos received a surprise commutation from President Donald Trump last week—just 84 days into his seven-year federal sentence—many Americans were understandably ...

Yesterday, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown commuted the state’s entire death row. The death penalty in Oregon, as around the country, is unjust, unfair, and racially biased. Gov. Brown joins a bipartisan group ...

Though former Gov. Phil Murphy established an advisory board, the ultimate decision to grant clemency was up to him.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - A pair of brothers in Mississippi are finally walking free after serving more time in prison than they should have. For more than a decade, Marcus and Maurice Taylor ...