Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to death in six states during the remainder of 2025. Through March 20, three ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

Newsom on Monday plans to propose a new parole board process that could clear a path for more prisoners to have their ...

The reason: Prisoners are often required to serve a greater proportion of federal sentences than state sentences, and ...

Gail Stallworth still couldn’t have predicted what would happen to her application. That’s because it has likely never ...

Board of Pardons Secretary Shelley Watson emailed Sabirha Williams ... and by the time he signed it, parole officials incorrectly released McFadden straight to the public instead of into a two-year ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) directed the state’s parole board to evaluate the risk of possibly granting clemency to Erik ...

With that out of the way, let’s begin. The first way in which amnesty might be granted is through the President’s power to pardon offenders under section 84(2)(j) of the Constitution, which provides ...

Amid the pressure on the federal government to grant pardons to politically exposed ... such as community service and a more robust parole system, as effective measures to address prison overcrowding.

The pardon by the governor was made as part of activities commemorating his inauguration as well as his efforts in sustaining and enhancing reformative justice in the state. According to Chief ...

No president should be able to pardon any person whose behavior has been determined to be criminal. These past two months between Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump pardoning the most egregious ...