Governor Whitmer granted clemency to several individuals, including Darrell Phillips who was imprisoned for armed robbery.

Bright-line rules and zero-tolerance policies tend to simplify complex problems at the expense of fairness and nuance. President Joe Biden's recent decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal ...

Several Jan. 6 defendants are seeking permission to attend Trump’s inauguration, citing pardon promises. Courts weigh public safety, politics, and justice.

The Justice Department has used the FACE Act as a cudgel to force peaceful pro-life advocates into submission — and prison.

People are speaking out this weekend, two weeks after President Joe Biden granted clemency to disgraced Kids for Cash judge Michael Conahan. Dozens ...

Two days before Christmas, President Joe Biden commuted sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row, sparking national ...

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

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

Is Donald Trump about to make all of Rudy Giuliani ’s legal troubles go away? That’s the impression you might get from the former presidential lawyer, who has been living life like he just has to make ...

Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted or pardoned four people from the Triad during final days of his second term in office. All of ...

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