He would have been released in 2034. The last-minute clemency from Biden also caught Clarke's family by surprise. "I’m sick and tired, and I’m disgusted," her brother, Oswald Clarke ...

He was right, as backup officers arrived too late. Fifty years later, on his last day in office, President Biden granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, who murdered Williams. Mr. Peltier then fled ...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares lambasted President Biden after he granted clemency to the "Waverly Two," who they said admitted to being responsible for ...

United States President Donald Trump has granted clemency to everyone charged over the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol in one of his first official acts in the Oval Office. In a sweeping ...

A man convicted in the killing of an 8-year-old boy and his mother in Bridgeport in 1999 has been granted clemency by now former president Joe Biden, drawing criticism across party lines.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court challenging the legality of the president's power to grant clemency to convicted individuals without any guidelines.

Days before he left office, former President Joe Biden’s order of clemency for people convicted of federal drug crimes was billed as one of the largest such acts for nonviolent offenders in U.S ...

The president reportedly offered the clemency without checking with prosecutors. Hayes is one of nearly 2,500 federal inmates whose sentences were slashed by Biden.

They were mostly members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and were all serving out yearslong prison sentences before Trump’s clemency. Some of them were part of the group who received ...

In the final hours of President Joe Biden’s term, he granted Leonard Peltier clemency through commutation, allowing him to serve his life sentence at home on the Turtle Mountain Indian ...

In a final act of clemency on Monday, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of an Indigenous activist convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. Leonard Peltier, who was serving a ...