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What to know about prisoners crafting clemency petitions to capture Trump's attention
Clemency has come early and often in President Donald Trump's second term, prompting nearly 10,000 convicts to request ...
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Gov. Whitmer grants pardons, commutes sentences of 4 serving life terms
LANSING, MI – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday granted seven clemency requests, including sentence reductions for four ...
Apparently fake clemency letter for Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover sent to Gov. JB Pritzker
Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, an ...
Whitmer grants clemency requests for 7, including 5 sentenced for murder
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer granted clemency requests for seven people Thursday, reducing the sentences of four inmates serving terms for first-degree murder and pardoning three other men, including one ...
Rights groups urge Calif. governor to grant clemency to all on death row
More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death ...
Pardon applications are being carefully crafted with one man in mind: Donald Trump
Pounding away on a prison typewriter, Chad Scott seemed worlds apart from President Donald Trump. Honduran family freed from ...
In Md., Moore’s weed pardons are a political pitch. What’s the impact?
Last June, Gov. Wes Moore (D) issued a blanket pardon to 100,000 people in Maryland, forgiving decades of low-level marijuana ...