There is no limit to the number of pardons a U.S. President can issue, there are still some restrictions. Bitzer told WCNC ...

U.S. presidents have the authority to grant clemency, which includes both pardons and commutations. A pardon relieves a ...

Democrats accused of corruption are seeking relief from President Trump as he hands out scores of pardons and drops charges ...

Donald Walters, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to dog fighting and running a crack-cocaine ring in Tulsa, may be released five ...

Youngkin's office said then-President Obama declined to grant clemency to Claiborne and Richardson. Under the current terms, both men are set to be released in July. "This is despicable.

Sen. Chris Coons suggested that there might be common ground with Congress and the attorney general to institutionalize reforms to the clemency process.

The president is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses in the biggest single-day act of clemency.

Shortly before leaving office Monday, former President Biden commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a far-left activist convicted in the 1975 murders of two FBI special agents, Ronald ...

Three federal judges in Washington DC reluctantly dropped the cases of several Jan. 6 rioters who were among the 1,500 ...

In 2017 an attorney for Peltier petitioned former president Obama for clemency in the final days of his term. Similar petitions were made to former presidents going back to President Jimmy Carter.