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 ...

A North Little Rock man whose life sentence was commuted by President Joe Biden will be resentenced after an appeals court ...

UPDATE (June 13, 2024, 6:06 p.m. ET): President Joe Biden said Thursday that he won’t commute his son Hunter Biden’s sentence. I confess that I hadn’t considered the possibility of a Hunter Biden ...

Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, who are ...

Documents provided by a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell has asked President Donald Trump to commute her sentence as ...

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 and ...

Former Rep. George Santos, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, is seeking clemency from President Trump, who ...

In simple terms, a commutation reduces a criminal penalty. This may include shortening a prison sentence or replacing a death sentence with life imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, which forgives a crime ...

Fact-Check: A viral post falsely states that the Supreme Court has issued direction to reduce the recovery period for pension ...

On Jan. 17, 2017, President Obama made perhaps the highest-profile clemency decision of his presidency, in its final hours. Namely, he granted a commutation to Chelsea Manning, the U.S. Army soldier ...

Discover how commutation agreements work, including methods to value claims and discharge reinsurance obligations, ensuring financial stability and risk management.

“I have to be honest with you, I couldn’t breathe." Just the letter alone notifying Audrey and Bruce Carlson that their daughter Elizabeth’s ex-boyfriend and murderer had applied for commutation was ...