Democrats on Capitol Hill are sounding alarms over the potential commutation of an election denier and convicted felon’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result ...

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 ...

DeBruce and Burton were both convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, but DeBruce's sentence was commuted to a ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the execution of a man on death row. On Tuesday, Ivey announced that Charles L. Burton, 75, would instead serve life in prison without the ...

From left: Lt. Gov. Austin Davis (Commonwealth Media Services); Gail Stallworth (courtesy of Cornelius Harp); then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro at a Board of Pardons meeting (via YouTube). Gail ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton to life without parole, saying the execution ...

Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, participated in a 1991 robbery that led to a death but had left the building when an accomplice ...

President Donald Trump said Friday evening he had just signed a commutation releasing scandal-plagued former congressman George Santos from prison "immediately." Santos was sentenced to more than ...

Bolden, who became the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on the security detail for a U.S. president, was among 78 people granted pardons or commutations of their sentences on April 26, 2022, ...