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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Rep. George Santos, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, is seeking clemency from President Trump, who has shown a willingness to pardon like-minded politicians facing jail time ...

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 ...

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 ...

A North Little Rock man whose life sentence was commuted by President Joe Biden will be resentenced after an appeals court ...

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 ...

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Karine Jean-Pierre said she hadn't spoken to the president about the matter. The White House on Wednesday declined to rule out a presidential sentence commutation for Hunter Biden following his ...