Nov. 10 (UPI) --Ghislaine Maxwell is planning to ask President Donald Trump for a commutation for her sex trafficking conviction related to the late Jeffrey Epstein, House Democrats said Monday. Rep.

Gov. Tony Evers issued two executive orders this month that make the commutation of prison sentences available again in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement ...

Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in 2004 ...

Former Rep. George Santos, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, is seeking clemency from President Trump, who ...

For the second time in as many weeks, the Governor's Council reviewed a request to commute the life in prison sentence of a man convicted of murder. William Allen's commutation petition has been ...

During a day-long commutation hearing at the State House Wednesday, Thomas Koonce apologized for the 1987 slaying of a 24-year-old New Bedford man and told the Governor’s Council he will spend the ...

In simple terms, a commutation reduces a criminal penalty. This may include shortening a prison sentence or replacing a death sentence with life imprisonment. Unlike a pardon, which forgives a crime ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Board of Pardons and Parole denied death row inmate Ralph Menzies' commutation petition. Menzies, convicted of brutally murdering 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The son of a woman murdered in the 1980s said he's frustrated with the timing of commutation hearings for his mother's killer, despite giving the Utah Board of Pardons advance ...