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.
Instead, allies and criminal justice advocates say, Biden’s act of mass clemency on Thursday now feels like something of a ...
Among those whose sentences were commuted was Rebecca Parrett, an Arizona woman who now hopes to travel to meet her ...
All told, more than 90% of Biden’s total acts of clemency have now come in his last fiscal year in office – the period ...
President Biden commuted 1,500 jail sentences and pardoned 39 others on Thursday in the largest single-day act of clemency in ...
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 ...
Tommy Anderson has been required to wear a monitoring device since being released from prison last year. His case made ...
President Biden's act of clemency, the largest in a single day, has left some congressional Republicans unhappy, while a ...
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