Gov. Tony Evers issued two executive orders this month that make the commutation of prison sentences available again in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement ...

Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order establishing a commutation advisory board, marking Wisconsin's first step toward using commutations in more than two decades.

Evers’ commutation process offers hope to some lifers, but excludes sex offenses and recent violence behind bars.

Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in 2004 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Board of Pardons and Parole denied death row inmate Ralph Menzies' commutation petition. Menzies, convicted of brutally murdering 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is ...

Even after Britt Reid was charged with driving while intoxicated and causing a February 2021 crash that severely injured a 5-year-old girl, the former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach continued to ...

Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, is reportedly planning to seek a commutation of her federal prison sentence, which is set to end in 2037. A document obtained by ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The son of a woman murdered in the 1980s said he's frustrated with the timing of commutation hearings for his mother's killer, despite giving the Utah Board of Pardons advance ...

Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) said he was “not happy” about President Donald Trump’s decision to grant clemency to former Republican New York Rep. George Santos on Friday. “Three months is not enough of a ...

For the second time in as many weeks, the Governor's Council reviewed a request to commute the life in prison sentence of a man convicted of murder. William Allen's commutation petition has been ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance ...