Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

In a joint statement released Thursday, state Sen. Vin Gopal, and Assemblywomen Margie Donlon and Luanne Peterpaul, expressed ...

Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance ...

President Donald Trump seems to be making progress on his promise to “vigorously pursue” the death penalty after former President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row in ...

Betty Dickey recalls the angry young woman at the beginning of a 50-year prison sentence, causing trouble for herself and ...

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 ...

The children burned to death while strapped inside. Jurors heard the evidence and unanimously convicted Montalvo of murder, ...

The Monmouth County woman was seeking a new trial after developments in fire science raised questions about expert testimony ...

One of former New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s final act in office included 148 clemency actions for convicted criminals. Among them, four women found guilty of murder.Murphy announced the final round of ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

President Trump commuted the sentence of the so-called “king” of Medicaid fraud — who drove a Ferrari, crisscrossed the country on private jets and bribed the head men’s basketball coach at the ...