The honorees included high-profile figures like Hillary Clinton, the singer Bono and the philanthropist and donor George ...

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...

The governor of North Carolina reduced the death sentence of 15 inmates to life without parole on his last day in office.

Boylan’s “She’s Not There” was the first book by an out transgender American author to reach bestseller status 20 years ago.

Arkansas currently has more than 17,000 of its just over 3 million people locked up in state prisons around the state, with ...

Joe Biden used a blunt tool to nullify an entire section of law when he gave clemency to the man who murdered a Columbus ...

While Biden does have power to grant clemency, his transgression is of a wider scale: it undermines the constitutional separation of powers. Article I of the Constitution gives Congress sole ...

KUALA LUMPUR-Malaysia’s royal palace said on Jan 3 that any prisoners seeking clemency for their sentences must submit appeals to the pardons board chaired by the king, echoing a government ...

In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper granted clemency to 15 people on death row.They include three people in Forsyth County — Cerron Hooke, James Little, and Timothy White.