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.

Ben Curtis/AP Share Monday was a big day for presidential clemency, but that does not mean it was a good day. Both outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump used that power ...

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 ...

Over the years, imminent persons such as Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Jesse Jackson, the Dalai Lama and Rigoberta Menchu called for clemency in his case. He was also supported by organizations ...

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 ...

By Alan Feuer Fresh from being freed by President Trump’s sweeping grants of clemency, two of the nation’s most notorious far-right leaders — Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart ...

A Bridgeport man convicted of conspiracy in a brutal double murder that led the state to create a witness protection program has been granted clemency by former President Joe Biden. Adrian Peeler ...

BRIDGEPORT — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said it appeared an oversight resulted in President Joe Biden giving clemency to a man convicted in the 1999 killings of a woman and her 8-year-old ...

Monday was a big day for presidential clemency, but that does not mean it was a good day. Both outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump used that power in self-interested ...

On Monday, as part of his mass clemency of those tied to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Mr. Trump pardoned over 1,500 defendants and commuted the sentences of Rhodes, his co-defendants and certain ...

OKLAHOMA (KFOR) – Oklahoma’s AG Gentner Drummond on Tuesday says his office is requesting the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board reject clemency for Wendell Arden Grissom. “Wendell Grissom ...