President Donald Trump defended his decision to free all of roughly 1,600 Jan. 6 riot defendants on Tuesday as the leaders of two extremist groups who played outsize roles in the Capitol attack ...

An Oklahoma board rejected clemency on Wednesday for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a woman during a 2005 ...

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of beloved pastor Clint Dobson, ...

Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer of the Department of Justice said in a Jan. 18 email to U.S. attorneys that commutations by ...

Donald Walters, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to dog fighting and running a crack-cocaine ring in Tulsa, may be released five ...

A woman who strangled her boyfriend and was featured in Netflix’s “I Am a Killer” series for the 2015 crime walked back a ...

Melissa Calusinski was convicted and sentenced to 31 years in prison for the death of a 16-month-old in her care, but her ...

Melissa Calusinski was convicted and sentenced to 31 years in prison for the death of a 16-month-old in her care, but her attorneys argue that critical evidence that might have cleared her was ...

A few days before he left office, President Biden commuted the sentences of about 2,500 drug offenders. The grant of clemency, Biden explained, “provides relief for individuals who received lengthy ...

The grant of clemency, Biden explained, “provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, as well as outdated ...