Two federal death row inmates are asking to be exempted from outgoing President Joe Biden’s order commuting their sentences to life in prison without parole, as they seek to appeal their cases and ...

The family members of people who have been murdered stood beside Republican lawmakers Tuesday, calling on the Connecticut State Board of Pardons and Paroles to halt the process of shortening sentences ...

A man involved in a high-profile murder case in Bridgeport in 1999 was released from a federal prison in West Virginia on Wednesday after being granted clemency for a drug conviction, and questions ...

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 crime ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Although the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole said it would not conduct a competency inquiry during the commutation hearing for death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies, much of the ...