Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Laws change. People change. New information comes to light. That’s the reason presidents and governors can grant pardons and commutations. According to ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials began hearing testimony Monday about whether a man facing execution next month should be spared the death penalty for murdering his girlfriend's mother and instead ...

Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has granted various forms of prerogative of mercy to eight inmates of Correctional Centres in the state on parole. A statement released by the Governor’s media ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says the Legislature has previously discussed increasing the number of years a person convicted of murder and granted mercy at ...

Mar. 29—KINGWOOD — The trial for Luis Martinez-Otero, 54, of Terra Alta ended Thursday with the jury bringing back a guilty verdict of first-degree murder, recommending his sentence be served without ...

The Alaska Constitution entrusts the governor with a clemency power. This power allows the governor to show mercy to people who have been convicted of crimes. For instance, the governor can grant ...

DEER LODGE – Convicted killer Ronald Smith, making a last-ditch effort to avoid the death penalty by asking for clemency, is a changed man from the day he killed two young Browning men 30 years ago ...

The so-called “killer poet” is seeking parole again. For more than two decades, we have followed Norman Porter’s case through our New England’s Unsolved series. [ PREVIOUS: ‘Killer poet’ Norman Porter ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state’s parole board has rejected a plea for mercy by a condemned inmate who killed his wife and the man who had let the couple live in his home. Raymond Tibbetts was ...

Oklahoma’s Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones just hours before his scheduled execution on Thursday. Given the overwhelming support for capital punishment in ...