The Colorado Constitution gives the governor the power of clemency, which allows the granting of mercy or leniency to a ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer granted five clemency requests on Tuesday, including sentence reductions for two people convicted of ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Governor Kathy Hochul granted clemency to 13 people this week, continuing what her office calls a more transparent and ...

Governor Kathy Hochul granted clemency to 13 people, reducing the prison sentences of two men and pardoning 11 others, while ...

Alice Marie Johnson, who was appointed as "pardon czar" by President Donald Trump, explained the key differences between Trump and former President Biden's commutations of prison sentences in an ...

In Wisconsin, the last time there was a commutation — a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant clemency — it was during Republican Tommy Thompson’s administration ...

Last summer, Gov. Phil Murphy announced a new clemency initiative designed to fast-track the review of certain applications for pardons or commutations. He's issued two "rounds" of actions since then ...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in ...

That’s where the Tribune’s archives help. We’ve reviewed the names of people who have received pardons or commutations going back to the 1950s. Here’s a look at people with Chicago or Illinois ...