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 ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Saturday, Gov. Charlie Baker announced the commutation of Ramadan Shabazz’s first-degree murder sentence, and the pardon of six individual people. According to officials, Shabazz, 72, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Over recent months, pardons, clemency, and commutation have been hot-button topics when discussing politics and law, and they will likely continue to be in the future. In ...

Betty Dickey recalls the angry young woman at the beginning of a 50-year prison sentence, causing trouble for herself and corrections officers. That person doesn't exist any more, said Dickey, a ...

FLINT, MI -- Nearly 40 years after Linda J. Nunn was convicted of fatally shooting a federal bank examiner during a sex-for-money scheme in Flint, she’s asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to commute her ...

(CNN) — Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases ...

President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and pardoning 39 others convicted of ...