The Justice Department’s prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack — hailed as one of the “largest, most complex, and ...

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said it’s President-elect Trump’s decision to pardon Jan. 6 rioters. Thune ...

When Peter Ninemire was freed by presidential clemency from a federal prison where he was serving a 27-year sentence on drug ...

The year came to a violent end in Charlotte this week, as six people were killed in the city between Christmas Day and New ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.

South Carolina's Supreme Court set a Jan. 31 date for the state's next execution after allowing a pause for the Christmas ...

President Joe Biden granted clemency consisting of 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations. Paul John Garcia from Las Vegas, New Mexico was granted commutation.

A former Florida-based doctor convicted of unlawfully distributing narcotics to patients in northeastern Kentucky and southern Ohio was granted clemency from President Joe Biden last month, ...

Cooper's decision to commute the 15 inmates' sentences marks the largest clemency action of its kind in North Carolina.

The Arizona Justice Project is seeking clemency for Joseph Fuentes who they say was wrongfully convicted of murder.

Dwight Jordan was 18 at the time of his conviction for murder, and his commuted sentence makes him eligible for parole.

With 15 death row commutations, Gov. Cooper joins a majority of U.S. governorsin limiting the excesses of the death ...