Monday’s hearing is not the first time Ersland has tried to get commutation. “I was before this board in 2018 requesting the same relief I’m requesting today. We lost by 3-2 vote,” said ...

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 ...

“The defendant never requested commutation,” wrote Agofsky in his petition. “The defendant never filed for commutation. The defendant does not want commutation, and refused to sign the ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board (PPB) denied the commutation request of former pharmacist Jerome Ersland Monday afternoon. Ersland, now 72, sought an early release from his life sentence for ...

“The President’s commutation of a sentence ‘is the determination of the ultimate authority that the public welfare will be better served by inflicting less than what the judgment fixed ...

The list named 37 people slated for commutation. Not on the list were Robert Bowers, sentenced to death last year for gunning down 11 worshipers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue ...

President Biden gave commutations of sentences to 37 people on federal death row Monday. Those who received the Monday commutations of their sentences saw them go from execution to life with no ...

Savage was a violent drug kingpin from Philadelphia. With Biden’s commutation, he will now spend the rest of his life behind bars without possibility of parole. On Monday, The Philadelphia ...

As the controversy surrounding the commutation continues, Hurst's family wants him to be remembered for his service and character. "With all the bad press about the police, I want people to know ...

W. Bush is on President Biden’s federal death row commutation list. While 53-year-old Maine man Charles Hall is on the commutation list, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was left off the ...

But a commutation issued Friday by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is itself a miscarriage of justice — not for the person whose prison sentence he commuted but for that person’s victim. On Dec. 3 ...