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 ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton, who was not in the building when the victim ...

From left: Lt. Gov. Austin Davis (Commonwealth Media Services); Gail Stallworth (courtesy of Cornelius Harp); then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro at a Board of Pardons meeting (via YouTube). Gail ...

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 ...

DeBruce and Burton were both convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, but DeBruce's sentence was commuted to a ...

Donald Trump has commuted the federal sentence of Larry Hoover, the infamous former leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang in Chicago. Hoover, now 74, was serving six life sentences in a federal ...

For just the second time, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has used her powers to order the commutation of a prisoner’s death sentence.

President Donald Trump said Friday evening he had just signed a commutation releasing scandal-plagued former congressman George Santos from prison "immediately." Santos was sentenced to more than ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking co-conspirator, is planning to apply for a commutation of her federal prison sentence, which is set to run through 2037, according to documents ...

With President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons to more than 1,500 charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, whatever was remaining of their sentences is now forgiven. The total ...

Bolden, who became the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on the security detail for a U.S. president, was among 78 people granted pardons or commutations of their sentences on April 26, 2022, ...

Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, participated in a 1991 robbery that led to a death but had left the building when an accomplice killed the victim inside.