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 ...

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 ...

Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who faces more than seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, revealed this week that he will be seeking clemency from ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Taberon Honie, who was sentenced to death for the violent killing of his ex-girlfriend's mother, Claudia Benn, is appearing before the Utah Board of Pardons & Parole over a two ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Board of Pardons and Parole denied death row inmate Ralph Menzies' commutation petition. Menzies, convicted of brutally murdering 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is ...

The Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole denied a request for a second commutation hearing for Thomas Creech, whose execution date is set for Nov. 13. The decision was made in a Tuesday executive ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly four decades after Maurine Hunsaker was kidnapped and murdered, her family is once again confronting the man convicted of the crime — Ralph Menzies — as he prepares for a ...