In the seven years Gov. Jared Polis has held pardon and clemency powers, he’s wiped away thousands of marijuana convictions, ...

President Donald Trump is taking an increasingly personal role in the government’s clemency process, wielding pardons with historic frequency to aid allies and advance his own political grievances.

President Donald Trump is taking an increasingly personal role in the government’s clemency process, wielding pardons with historic frequency to aid allies and advance his own political grievances.

In recent months, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has assumed greater authority over the presidential clemency process, tightening internal controls and reasserting oversight after reports that ...

President Trump this week pardoned former aide Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and many others accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election ...

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, is the latest person convicted of criminal fraud to ask for Trump to ...

Clemency gives the president the power to pardon or commute sentences. How has Donald Trump used his power in his first year ...

President Donald Trump has granted pardons and clemency to political allies and supporters. In just over nine months back in office, roughly 10,000 people have filed petitions for pardons or ...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold, saying questions about the state’s clemency process must be addressed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Mike DeWine has said that he intends to make a statement about the death penalty in January, as he enters his final year in ...

Phil Murphy's clemency decisions, especially for a mother who killed her children, have stirred deep bipartisan anger in New ...