A judge will decide Monday whether new evidence warrants a re-examination of the convictions of Erik and Lyle Menendez in the ...

Gov. Newsom defers clemency decision for Menendez brothers, awaiting review by newly elected Los Angeles County DA.

President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he would nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense in his second term has already stirred controversy. Hegseth, a ...

In comparison, President Obama, over eight years, granted over 200 pardons (and another 1,300 other acts of clemency) to those who labored behind bars for relatively minor drug offenses ...

Monitors of extremist groups are waiting and watching to see how extensive Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency campaign becomes. At the least, even a few pardons will send a sign to the country’s far ...

But the issue poses a dilemma for the president-elect. Many of Trump’s most loyal supporters expect him to grant maximum clemency, even for some of the most violent offenders. But that could ...

DeVillers declined comment Monday on Householder‘s presidential clemency request. The Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com reached out to Parker’s office. Householder was one of the first and most ...

According to the US Department of Justice, “The President's clemency power is conferred by Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which provides ...

The father of Cameron Lamb questions the reasons why Missouri’s new governor-elect might grant clemency to Lamb’s killer. In 2021, a judge convicted Eric DeValkenaere of involuntary ...

Trump will have the authority to clear all of that away the moment he takes office on Jan. 20. The president’s clemency power is vast and subject to few limits. Trump hasn’t offered details about how ...

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly granted clemency to six men and a woman who have “demonstrated their commitment to making amends,” clearing criminal records for five and allowing the early release of two ...