The Board of Pardons reopened the case after opposition from the victim’s family arrived two months after its first vote.

By state constitutional amendment, Pennsylvania, for example, has limited the governor’s powers of pardon and commutation to recommendations to a Board of Pardons. The Pennsylvania Pardon Board ...

How this unfettered clemency power came to be written into our Constitution and how, in spite of frequent abuse, it seems ...

Supported by By Dan Barry and Alan Feuer Photographs by Meridith Kohut On her 15th day of freedom as a pardoned participant in the Jan. 6 riot, Rachel Powell drove through western Pennsylvania’s ...

The constitution states that “The President . . . shall have Power to grant … Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” Although pardons have always ...