Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Last summer, Gov. Phil Murphy announced a new clemency initiative designed to fast-track the review of certain applications for pardons or commutations. He's issued two "rounds" of actions since then ...

In Wisconsin, the last time there was a commutation — a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant clemency — it was during Republican Tommy Thompson’s administration ...

Alice Marie Johnson, who was appointed as "pardon czar" by President Donald Trump, explained the key differences between Trump and former President Biden's commutations of prison sentences in an ...

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 ...

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Polis converted the death sentences of the men — Nathan Dunlap, Robert Ray and Sir Mario Owens — to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The governor’s decision marks one of the most ...

President Trump has made a mockery of the pardon power exclusively granted to the presidency by the Constitution. In addition to the unconditional pardons issued on the first day of his current term ...

That’s where the Tribune’s archives help. We’ve reviewed the names of people who have received pardons or commutations going back to the 1950s. Here’s a look at people with Chicago or Illinois ...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro has not reappointed a longtime member of the Board of Pardons, a psychiatrist who advocates have opposed for his votes against clemency applicants, lack of experience in ...

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, ...