Kay Ivey this week was one execution away from setting a record among Alabama governors in the modern era of the death penalty. But instead she chose to spare a man’s life, setting an entirely ...

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SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash — It's now up to Washington Governor Bob Ferguson if a convicted Spokane murderer goes free after serving two-thirds of his sentence. The Washington State Clemency and Pardons ...

A man convicted of transporting large quantities of methamphetamine from California to Guam in the early and mid-1990s “has no intention of returning to Guam,” according to a filing in District Court ...

Charles “Sonny” Burton Jr., 75, was scheduled to be executed in Alabama’s Holman Correctional Facility on March 12. But two days before he was to be forced to inhale fatal nitrogen gas, Gov. Kay Ivey ...

(The Hill) — Documents provided by a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell has asked President Donald Trump to commute her sentence as prison employees suggest she has received “concierge-style ...