The efforts to free Peltier got closest in 2000, as Bill Clinton was leaving office and a pardon seemed imminent. It never came, a decision that caused a rift between Peltier advocate David Geffen ...

James Lankford, R-Okla., who has called Snowden a “traitor.” Trump has enthusiastically wielded his pardon Sharpie, but one name so far has failed to cross his desk. For years, supporters of ...

Emily Hernandez, 25, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a fatal DUI crash killing Victoria Wilson and injuring her husband. Hernandez was driving on the wrong side of the highway with a blood ...

In an interview with The Washington Post, Núñez Ávila slammed Trump’s pardon as hypocritical. “He talks about immigrants coming here to the States, bringing drugs to the U.S., but yet he ...

President Donald Trump has done it again. With his unconditional pardon of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, he has not only fulfilled a long-standing promise to the libertarian movement ...

GiveSendGo Herb Geraghty, a 28-year-old activist from Pennsylvania, told Newsweek on Friday he was worried that receiving a pardon he didn't request would make it harder to appeal his conviction.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order pardoning about 1,500 defendants charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 20 in Washington ...

A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon, which releases a person from punishment and expresses the president's forgiveness. Every ...

The slain suspect, who was from the city of Hobart, was granted a pardon from the president last week that wiped away a misdemeanor charge tied to his involvement in the Capitol riot. He was ...

He’s expected to appear before the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Billy Hutto Jr. was convicted back in 2013 for killing 6-year-old ...