SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Utah Board of Pardons & Parole met with media to explain the process if death row inmate Ralph Menzies is granted a commutation hearing. His attorneys have asked the Board ...

Gov. Tony Evers issued two executive orders this month restoring the commutation process in Wisconsin, opening a window to ...

Gov. Tony Evers announced April 3 that he’s reviving the state’s commutation process, allowing Wisconsin prisoners to apply to have their sentences shortened for the first time in 25 years.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. House Democrats say documents from a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation. The White ...

From left: Lt. Gov. Austin Davis (Commonwealth Media Services); Gail Stallworth (courtesy of Cornelius Harp); then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro at a Board of Pardons meeting (via YouTube). Gail ...

(WLUK) -- Tony Evers is the first Wisconsin governor in more than two decades to issue commutations. Evers signed two executive orders Friday to reinstate Wisconsin's process for issuing commutations, ...

MURRAY — Prosecutors have until the end of the workday Wednesday to file their response to death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies's request for a commutation hearing. Menzies, 67, is scheduled to be ...

TINTON FALLS — A trio of Democratic state legislators from Monmouth County has broken ranks with former Gov. Phil Murphy, issuing a blistering condemnation of his last-minute decision to commute the ...

(WHTM) — Advocates say there are more than 5,000 inmates serving life sentences in Pennsylvania, and not enough of them are getting second chances. The Let’s Get Free Initiative sent a petition with ...