Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Joe Biden announced Thursday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement ...

Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order establishing a commutation advisory board, marking Wisconsin's first step toward ...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — The White House is not ruling out a potential commutation for Hunter Biden, the president's son who was convicted on three federal gun crimes and is set to be sentenced by ...

Evers’ commutation process offers hope to some lifers, but excludes sex offenses and recent violence behind bars.

Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in 2004 ...

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 ...

Gov. Tony Evers has signed two executive orders to reinstate Wisconsin’s commutation process and create a new Commutation Advisory Board, according to a release from the governor's office.

For the second time in as many weeks, the Governor's Council reviewed a request to commute the life in prison sentence of a man convicted of murder. William Allen's commutation petition has been ...

During a day-long commutation hearing at the State House Wednesday, Thomas Koonce apologized for the 1987 slaying of a 24-year-old New Bedford man and told the Governor’s Council he will spend the ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance ...