SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Taberon Honie, who was sentenced to death for the violent killing of his ex-girlfriend's mother, Claudia Benn, is appearing before the Utah Board of Pardons & Parole over a two ...

Karine Jean-Pierre said she hadn't spoken to the president about the matter. The White House on Wednesday declined to rule out a presidential sentence commutation for Hunter Biden following his ...

UPDATE (June 13, 2024, 6:06 p.m. ET): President Joe Biden said Thursday that he won’t commute his son Hunter Biden’s sentence. I confess that I hadn’t considered the possibility of a Hunter Biden ...

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — On Monday, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board heard a case by Jerome Ersland in his plea to get out of prison early. He’s convicted of murdering a teenager back in 2009 after ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Over recent months, pardons, clemency, and commutation have been hot-button topics when discussing politics and law, and they will likely continue to be in the future. In ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who faces more than seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, revealed this week that he will be seeking clemency from ...

Governor Charlie Baker on Wednesday approved commutation requests for two men serving life sentences for murder in what attorneys called a “groundbreaking” act of mercy not seen in Massachusetts in a ...