There's a reason presidents usually wait to issue controversial pardons or prison sentence commutations until the waning weeks, days or even hours of their terms. Outgoing presidents anticipate that ...

Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be working on her next big move: a formal plea to President Trump to have her sentence commuted.

Documents provided by a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell has asked President Donald Trump to commute her sentence as ...

Karine Jean-Pierre said she hadn't spoken to the president about the matter. The White House on Wednesday declined to rule out a presidential sentence commutation for Hunter Biden following his ...

President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and pardoning 39 others convicted of ...

UPDATE (June 13, 2024, 6:06 p.m. ET): President Joe Biden said Thursday that he won’t commute his son Hunter Biden’s sentence. I confess that I hadn’t considered the possibility of a Hunter Biden ...

Ghislaine Maxwell is planning to ask President Donald Trump for a commutation for her sex trafficking conviction related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

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 ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden is commuting sentences of around 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House announced this week. He ...