CHICAGO (CBS) --President Donald Trump said Wednesday he's considering commuting the sentence of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, which would mean an early release from his 14-year ...

A group of state representatives has introduced a bill that would strip the governor of the power to commute prison sentences and hand it over to the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency. The ...

In recent years, Republican members of the House of Representatives have had a crime rate that seems comparable to that of the most perilous of American neighborhoods, at least going by the growing ...

DETROIT, MI -- Convicted 47-year-old murdered Matthew Makowski says he should be set free after ex-Gov. Jennifer Granholm granted him a commutation in 2010, then later changed her mind when the the ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is looking for convicts worthy of his rarely used power to commute sentences. Obama has directed the Justice Department to improve its clemency recommendation ...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler is expected to propose on Thursday markups on measures designed to limit President Donald Trump's ability to issue pardons and commutations. Nadler's ...

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story misstated the Oregon county where a judge ruled in March that Gov. Brown could not expand the parole board’s authority. This story has since been ...

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Dear Editor: The article “Commutation is a presidential right" (The Tuscaloosa News, July 11) misses the boat on the recent pardon of Lewis Libby by President Bush. The issue is not whether Bush has ...

House Democrats moved to limit President Donald Trump’s constitutional pardon authority on Thursday following Trump’s commutation of the prison sentence for his longtime friend Roger Stone. The House ...

House Democrats moved to limit President Donald Trump’s constitutional pardon authority on Thursday following Trump’s commutation of the prison sentence for his longtime friend Roger Stone. The House ...