Most were convicted of drug offenses. A commutation of sentence and pardon are different forms of executive clemency, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Executive clemency is a broad ...

WASHINGTON — On Thursday, President Joe Biden was responsible for the biggest single-day act of clemency in U.S. history, commuting 1,500 sentences and issuing 39 pardons, including three for ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rumors were circulating for months about the possible pardon or commutation of ex-KCPD Ofc. Eric DeValkenaere's six-year prison sentence, and on Friday those rumors proved to ...

7th Pay Commission News: The Centre has received a proposal on restoration of commuted portion of the pension to the pensioners after 12 years instead of the present 15 years, a demand that has ...

Sandy Fonzo, whose son killed himself at age 23 after Ciavarella locked him up as a teen, called Conahan’s commutation an “injustice.” “I am shocked and I am hurt,” Fonzo said in a ...

But a commutation issued last week 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.

It also absolves them of guilt. A commutation lessens the sentence imposed on someone, but does not nullify that person's conviction like a pardon would. The power of the pardon is written into ...

Dixon Mayor Glen Hughes described the reaction of residents as “stunned, and maybe even angry,” and called the commutation a “dark moment” in the city’s history. “Although today’s ...