Biden grants clemency for nearly 1,500 people, the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he is commuting the sentences of some 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes – marking a broad use of the presidential clemency power just weeks from the end of Biden’s administration.
Among those whose sentences were commuted was Rebecca Parrett, an Arizona woman who now hopes to travel to meet her ...
Instead, allies and criminal justice advocates say, Biden’s act of mass clemency on Thursday now feels like something of a ...
All told, more than 90% of Biden’s total acts of clemency have now come in his last fiscal year in office – the period ...
The president commuted more than 1,500 sentences, setting a record for the most executed by a president in a single day.
Biden has been under pressure from justice activists to pardon people, including some Death Row inmates, before he leaves ...
President Joe Biden has used the power to pardon his son and, on Tuesday, 39 others. So what is clemency? Here's what to know ...
A former Pennsylvania judge who was convicted of sending children to jail while receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks ...
Pressley said Biden’s decision demonstrates “the power of clemency to address systemic injustices, reunite families, and set ...
President Biden's act of clemency, the largest in a single day, has left some congressional Republicans unhappy, while a ...
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