In a joint statement released Thursday, state Sen. Vin Gopal, and Assemblywomen Margie Donlon and Luanne Peterpaul, expressed ...

Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to commute her sentence for fraud. She has 6 years left in prison. Trump's pardons have faced criticism.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board (PPB) denied the commutation request of former pharmacist Jerome Ersland Monday afternoon. Ersland, now 72, sought an early release from his life sentence for the ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In 2006, a federal jury in Columbus sentenced Daryl Lawrence to death for the murder of Officer Bryan Hurst. The conviction was later upheld by the appellate court, seemingly ...

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 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 ...