Pardons

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has granted posthumous pardons to seven Black men executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman

President Donald Trump has pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting nearly 150 people, including rap stars and former members of Congress.

The pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted in the shooting deaths of more than a dozen Iraqi civilians has prompted outrage from some human rights activists and Iraqis.

President Donald Trump issued a new wave of pardons and sentence commutations for 29 people, including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Charles Kushner.

President Donald Trump issued full pardons to 15 people on Tuesday, including Republican allies and a 2016 campaign official.

As controversy swirls over mail-in voting in this year’s election, President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will pardon Susan B. Anthony, a women’s suffrage leader arrested for voting in 1872 in violation of laws permitting only men to vote. Trump’s move comes amid an outcry over Postal Service disruptions that Democrats say endanger the voting rights of millions of...

A Bridgeport man has been freed from ICE custody and is speaking with NBC Connecticut to share his story.

President Donald Trump has gone on a clemency blitz, commuting the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and pardoning a long list of other people.

President Donald Trump announced he has pardoned Bernard Kerik, the former NYPD commissioner who later went to federal prison for tax fraud and lying to the government. Trump also commuted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The news comes mere hours after Trump pardoned Edward DeBartolo Jr., the former San Francisco 49ers owner convicted in a gambling fraud scandal who built…

Chaos erupts near Texas’ death chamber when son of condemned inmate pounds on chamber windows, shouts obscenities as father speaks last words; son, grandson arrested.

A woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart is living several blocks from a Salt Lake City elementary school following her release from prison in September, according to Utah’s sex-offender registry. Wanda Barzee, 73, is listed in the registry as living in an apartment near the school after her initial placement in a halfway house. She was released on parole much...

A woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart is living several blocks from a Salt Lake City elementary school following her release from prison in September, according to Utah’s sex-offender registry. Wanda Barzee, 73, is listed in the registry as living in an apartment near the school after her initial placement in a halfway house. She was released on parole much...

A woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap Elizabeth Smart as a teenager in 2002 from her Salt Lake City bedroom and hold her captive will be freed from prison in a surprise move announced Tuesday by state authorities.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in the press briefing that President Donald Trump is not discussing pardons for Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates in the Russian investigation.

More than two dozen Connecticut inmates convicted of serious crimes as juveniles have had the opportunity to plead for parole for the first time.

A Texas prisoner has been executed for the shotgun slaying of a Dallas-area liquor store clerk during a robbery more than 25 years ago.

A Texas man who killed a Dallas police officer outside a club has been executed.

A convicted killer in Texas was executed Tuesday for fatally shooting another man in a robbery that yielded just $8.