Charles "Sonny" Burton faces execution in Alabama for his role in a 1991 robbery in which a man was fatally shot, even though Burton did not fire the gun or witness the killing.

A San Diego businesswoman who was granted clemency by Donald Trump in 2021 and later convicted on new fraud charges received a pardon from the president on Thursday, according to a White House ...

Clemency gives the president the power to pardon or commute sentences. How has Donald Trump used his power in his first year ...

President Donald Trump has frequently made news by granting pardons. A pardon is one way the president can grant clemency.

In the seven years Gov. Jared Polis has held pardon and clemency powers, he’s wiped away thousands of marijuana convictions, ...

Trump’s unprecedented use of pardons has turned clemency into a big business.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denied a recommendation for clemency for death row inmate Kendrick Simpson, clearing the way for his execution.

Phil Murphy's clemency decisions, especially for a mother who killed her children, have stirred deep bipartisan anger in New ...

Murphy can grant clemency to almost anyone he wants. The power is laid out in the state Constitution. But he went his first ...

Maria Montalvo, 61, a Union Beach mom convicted of murder in the fiery killings, was given a shot at parole by Phil Murphy ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill has an opportunity to build on Gov. Phil Murphy’s clemency initiative and deliver more reforms to New ...

Governor Alia honours Benue founders and icons at 50th anniversary, renames institutions and frees inmates through clemency.