The Colorado Constitution gives the governor the power of clemency, which allows the granting of mercy or leniency to a ...

Presidential pardons are broad and powerful. Their history, from the Civil War on, illuminates abuse concerns and how reforms ...

President Donald Trump granted clemency to nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 defendants, cryptocurrency executive Changpeng Zhao, former ...

Former Rep. George Santos, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft, is seeking clemency from President Trump, who ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro has not reappointed a longtime member of the Board of Pardons, a psychiatrist who advocates have opposed ...

Trump granted Paul Pogue, the founder and former chief executive officer of a large construction company in Texas, a full pardon. In 2010, he was sentenced to three years of probation and charged ...

President Donald Trump has used his clemency powers for 12 current or former House members throughout his two terms.

President Donald Trump reportedly granted clemency to a convicted fraudster. Trump has used the presidential clemency power, including pardons and sentence commutations, on several high-profile cases ...

While handing out get-out-of-jail-free cards, Trump has framed his actions as a response to a politicized and weaponized justice system.

A top Democrat introduced a resolution Tuesday opposing a presidential commutation or pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice to the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein who is now serving ...