Biden’s clemency for federal prisoners is only part of the story
There are three things you need to know about the media and how they approach anything that is complicated. First, as storytellers, we’re drawn to the complicated. Second, as journalists,
Fact Check: Biden granted clemency to 3 Chinese citizens as part of prisoner swap
U.S. President Joe Biden granted clemency to three Chinese citizens in November 2024 as part of a prisoner swap with China, contrary to social media posts suggesting it was a unilateral decision to free people who committed serious crimes.
Biden gets support for commuting federal death row sentences for 37 of 40 prisoners
NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Abraham Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action about President Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of all but three people on federal death row.
Biden grants executive clemency to 37 death row inmates, 4 from Virginia
Here is what to know after President Joe Biden signed an executive order making Christmas Eve a federal holiday in 2024. The monarch, 76, was faced with a fresh perspective after enduring a difficult year following his cancer diagnosis in February.
Biden spares 37 federal death row inmates; Trump vows to reinstate executions, slams commutation as ‘senseless’
Donald Trump hit out yesterday at Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of almost every American federal prisoner on death row, as the
Manchin calls Biden's clemency for two killers 'horribly misguided and insulting'
W.Va., characterized President Biden's commutations of the sentences of two prisoners who had been on federal death row as ...
Trump’s Christmas Day message to death-row inmates granted clemency by Biden: ‘GO TO HELL!’
President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row Monday — a list that includes at least five ...
Biden keeps up with controversial acts of clemency while otherwise fading from view
Fading from public view as President-elect Donald Trump increasingly wields the bully pulpit, Biden started Christmas week ...
President Biden’s act of clemency: 37 death row inmates avoid execution
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to ...
Victim’s shattered kin wants Biden to ‘explain to our faces’ stunning death-row Christmas clemency
He should have gotten that penalty,” said Alex Snell of Jorge Avila-Torrez, who fatally strangled Snell’s 20-year-old sister, ...
Biden grants clemency to man facing death penalty for 1996 Roanoke murder
A man facing the death penalty for a Roanoke murder has been granted clemency. President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of ...
Cooper pardons Haywood County man, plans more acts of clemency before end of year
Gov. Roy Cooper issued a pardon of forgiveness to a Haywood County man convicted of multiple misdemeanor crimes in 2011.
'Squad' Dem applauds Biden for sparing murderers from 'racist' death penalty in 11th-hour clemency move
House Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the left-wing lawmakers praising President Biden's decision to commute 37 ...
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Seven Texans facing federal execution given clemency, four others given state pardons
On the same day that President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of seven Texans, Gov. Greg Abbott issued his own set of ...
Biden pardoned son while leaving hundreds seeking clemency in limbo
President Biden’s historic one-day clemency act included commutations that sparked outrage, in part because the White House ...
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Biden Grants Clemency to BMF’s Terry ‘Southwest T’ Flenory
President Joe Biden gave clemency to Terry “Southwest T” Flenory, co-founder of the Black Mafia Family (BMF). Terry was ...
Kentucky fen-phen attorney who bilked clients out of millions granted clemency by Biden
Disbarred Lexington attorney William Gallion was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2009 for his role in defrauding his ...