Earlier this week, a man convicted in the killing of an 8-year-old boy and his mother in Bridgeport in 1999 has been granted ...

In the final hours of President Joe Biden’s term, he granted Leonard Peltier clemency through commutation, allowing him to ...

And, you know, for example, in New York state, we've had, a real paucity compared to the size of the system there of clemency. And largely that's because of a lack of will to do it. A lack of will.

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the ...

President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership is curtailing prosecutions against people accused of blocking ...

When a party’s leader claims to “back the blue” but pardons or frees those who assaulted police, some party members may feel dissonance. How do they reduce that dissonance?

Just to pick one example, in 2022 he labeled the story of ... And neither Washington nor Johnson made clemency a campaign issue. Not so Donald Trump, who was the first person ever to make the ...

Ben Curtis/AP Share Monday was a big day for presidential clemency, but that does not mean ... He has argued, for example, that the legislators who investigated the Capitol riot and criticized ...

This is an example of an unhealthy mix of politics and criminal justice seeing a man get out of prison sooner than he should be. Even with federal ranking clemency, he will still have a conviction ...

The US president’s power to pardon is one of the most misunderstood provisions of the Constitution. Read more at straitstimes ...