Ailing 80-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier remains detained in a federal prison, his residence for nearly a half-century. He’s ripe for clemency.

As his term comes to an end, President Joe Biden is making headlines with his decisions on pardons and clemency. The latest ...

W.Va., characterized President Biden's commutations of the sentences of two prisoners who had been on federal death row as ...

From policy developments to campaign promises, here are the biggest federal-level cannabis developments from the past year.

Outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) is denouncing as “misguided” and “disgusting” President Biden’s move to commute the ...

Death penalty opponents on Thursday launched a new effort to spare Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers and two others ...

Billionaires and big business are pledging to donate to the president-elect’s inaugural fund like never before.

Will Sam Bankman-Fried get a presidential pardon? Explore the controversy surrounding Biden potentially pardoning the FTX founder.

Sarah Jean Carlson, 49, of Coon Rapids, was pardoned by President Joe Biden after a guilty plea to a non-violent offense, per a White House briefing. She received early termination of a probationary ...

On the same day that President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of seven Texans, Gov. Greg Abbott issued his own set of ...

President Joe Biden gave clemency to Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, co-founder of the Black Mafia Family (BMF). Terry was ...

A federal jury convicted Runyon in 2009 of being a hitman for hire and shooting Navy sailor Cory Allen Voss. Court records say Runyon shot Voss five times outside a bank in April ...