KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Over recent months, pardons, clemency, and commutation have been hot-button topics when discussing politics and law, and they will likely continue to be in the future.
In the first hours of his second term, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly everyone convicted of crimes associated with ...
President Donald Trump pardoned all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and ...
The president is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses in the biggest ...
President Biden says he's commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. That gives him the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations ...
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, ...
A commutation reduces a person's sentence, but does not forgive the crime. While individual inmates can be released from custody on the same day a pardon is granted, larger-scale clemency actions ...
In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued blanket preemptive pardons Monday to prominent government officials, ...
President Biden said the 2,500 sentences for nonviolent drug offenses were "disproportionately long" compared to modern-day ...