Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed two executive orders to restore the state's process for commuting prison sentences.

Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order establishing a commutation advisory board, marking Wisconsin's first step toward ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result ...

Henri Buckner, whose federal prison sentence was commuted by President Biden in 2025, is among four arrested in a ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the execution of a man on death row. On Tuesday, Ivey announced that Charles L. Burton, 75, would instead serve life in prison without the ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that he commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity ...

Evers’ commutation process offers hope to some lifers, but excludes sex offenses and recent violence behind bars.

President Trump said Friday he granted former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) a sentence commutation months after the ex-lawmaker reported to prison. “George has been in solitary confinement for long ...

For the first time in decades, Wisconsin prisoners will be able to apply to have their sentences commuted, Gov. Tony Evers announced last week. Wisconsin Watch talked to three experts about how ...

Donald Trump has commuted the federal sentence of Larry Hoover, the infamous former leader of the Gangster Disciples street gang in Chicago. Hoover, now 74, was serving six life sentences in a federal ...