A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

State assemblyman Patrick Chludzinski (R, C, 143) pledged to address public safety issues and he is already doing so with new ...

Payback and projection have long been two of President Trump’s touchstones. He settles scores in return for every perceived ...

Newsom on Monday plans to propose a new parole board process that could clear a path for more prisoners to have their ...

The reason: Prisoners are often required to serve a greater proportion of federal sentences than state sentences, and ...

Gail Stallworth still couldn’t have predicted what would happen to her application. That’s because it has likely never ...

Board of Pardons Secretary Shelley Watson emailed Sabirha Williams ... and by the time he signed it, parole officials incorrectly released McFadden straight to the public instead of into a two-year ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) directed the state’s parole board to evaluate the risk of possibly granting clemency to Erik ...

With that out of the way, let’s begin. The first way in which amnesty might be granted is through the President’s power to pardon offenders under section 84(2)(j) of the Constitution, which provides ...

In dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court lacks the power to override the decisions of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board ...

In his view, the Supreme Court “lacks the power to override” the denials of relief by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and the state’s pardon and parole board. “Instead,” Thomas lamented, the ...