Gov. Gretchen Whitmer granted clemency requests for seven people Thursday, reducing the sentences of four inmates serving terms for first-degree murder and pardoning three other men, including one ...

LANSING, MI – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday granted seven clemency requests, including sentence reductions for four ...

Among the people who've received clemency in President Donald Trump’s second term are a pair of reality TV stars, a straw ...

Pounding away on a prison typewriter, Chad Scott seemed worlds apart from President Donald Trump. But when the disgraced ...

A final clemency decision now rests with Braun. The governor can accept the parole board’s recommendation, or elect to commute Ritchie’s death sentence to life imprisonment.

But while Cooper’s decision to extend clemency to inmates on death row was applauded by anti-death penalty advocates who had been calling on the Democratic governor to commute death sentences ...

But while Cooper’s decision to extend clemency to inmates on death row was applauded by anti-death penalty advocates who had been calling on the Democratic governor to commute death sentences ...

You can read the governor's Executive Orders and Clemency Letters at these links. In 2019, Governor Polis re-created the Executive Clemency Advisory Board.

FILE PHOTO: California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) reacts as he speaks to the members of the press on the day of the first presidential debate hosted by CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., June 27, 2024.

Current District Attorney George Gascón, who has voiced strong support for the Menendez brothers’ clemency petition and submitted letters to the governor advocating for them, requested a judge ...

Republican Gov. Henry McMaster denied Moore's request for clemency. No governor in South Carolina has granted in the previous 44 executions in the state since the death penalty restarted in 1976.