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 ...

Gov. Tony Evers issued two executive orders this month restoring the commutation process in Wisconsin, opening a window to early release ...

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 ...

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

Federal agents seized cocaine, cash, designer goods and six vehicles after months of surveillance on Henri Buckner and ...

Five years after then-Kansas City Police Department detective Eric DeValkenaere fatally shot 26-year-old Cameron Lamb as he entered Lamb’s backyard without a warrant, he is set to be freed from prison ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A commutation hearing will happen for Ralph Menzies. Menzies execution by firing squad is just over five weeks away, on September 5th. In an order published to their website ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Board of Pardons and Parole denied death row inmate Ralph Menzies' commutation petition. Menzies, convicted of brutally murdering 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- It's a historic day for Oklahoma and the country, as more than 400 inmates are being released from prison Monday. It is believed to be the country's largest-ever day of ...

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 ...