Menendez Brothers' Legal Battle for Clemency

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the Menendez brothers will have parole board hearings in mid-June to determine whether they should be granted clemency. District Attorney Nathan Hochman stated that new evidence suggesting abuse doesn't warrant a new trial for the convicted killers. The brothers are currently serving life sentences for the murders of their parents in 1989.

White-collar defendants seeking Trump's pardon

White-collar defendants are seeking Trump's pardon by framing themselves as victims of a corrupt justice system. Trump's recent actions indicate ongoing use of clemency powers. Various high-profile convicts are appealing directly to Trump through creative maneuvers. Interest in seeking presidential clemency has surged. Crypto entrepreneurs like Joby Weeks and Roger Ver are portraying themselves as victims and seeking clemency. Foreign businessman Ekim Alptekin has reemerged with a story involving the Biden family. Politicians facing corruption charges are also hoping for Trump's legal interventions.

Clemency Granted in Fatal Shooting Case

Virginia's Republican governor granted clemency to a former policeman involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in 2023. The ex-officer was sentenced to 3 years in prison but was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter. The shooting occurred outside a shopping center after the man was accused of stealing sunglasses. Body camera footage captured the pursuit and shooting, leading to the man's death.

Virginia Governor Grants Clemency to Fired Police Sergeant

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin granted clemency to a fired police sergeant convicted of shooting and killing an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses. The officer was sentenced to three years in prison but will now be freed, although his felony conviction remains.

Trump's Clemency for Jan. 6 Defendants

President Trump signed an executive order granting clemency to Jan. 6 defendants facing gun charges. The Department of Justice has widened the scope of Trump's pardons to include these charges. Cases against two defendants have been dismissed after Trump's pardon. The DOJ concluded that the pardon extends to drug and gun cases related to Jan. 6 charges.

Clemency Request for Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Parents of disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried are reportedly seeking a pardon for him from President Donald Trump. Bankman-Fried and a former FTX executive, Ryan Salame, are both seeking clemency. However, it may be challenging due to allegations of exploitation and fraud by Bankman-Fried's parents. FTX has sued the parents to recover funds. Various individuals, including a white-collar prison consultant and Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, are involved in seeking clemency. Trump has pardoned some allies in the past, but it may be harder for a Democrat megadonor like Bankman-Fried to receive clemency.

Clemency granted by Biden to a convicted drug kingpin

Former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor is pressed by Fox News host Jesse Watters on the future of the Democrat Party after the Biden presidency. A Connecticut drug kingpin who killed a mother and her 8-year-old son to prevent her from testifying against his brother received clemency from Biden. The decision has caused outrage and surprise among the victims' family members and politicians.

President Biden's commutation of federal death row sentences

President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row, including child killers and mass murderers, to life in prison without parole, citing his opposition to the death penalty. He left out three notorious fiends, including the Boston Marathon bomber and the Charleston church shooter.

President Joe Biden's Clemency Decisions

President Joe Biden granted pardons and commutations to over 1,500 individuals, including his son Hunter Biden, but social media claims about a Chinese national convicted of child pornography being pardoned are false. The individual in question was granted clemency as part of a prisoner swap with China.

Commute Death Sentences of Federal Inmates

Democrats on Capitol Hill are urging President Biden to commute the death sentences of 40 federal inmates, citing the death penalty as cruel, racist, and fundamentally flawed. They are calling for a resentence to prison terms to save lives.

Release of Convict in Nemtsov's Killing for Military Operation in Ukraine

A man convicted in the killing of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been released from jail after signing up for military operations in Ukraine. Other convicts remain in jail for refusing to sign up. Tens of thousands of Russian prisoners have volunteered to join the Russian army fighting in Ukraine in exchange for clemency if they survive.

President Biden's Pardon of Veterans Convicted for Being Gay

President Biden pardoned veterans who were convicted and forced out of the military for being gay under a former law banning gay sex, extending clemency to thousands of former service members affected from the 1950s to 2013.

Death Penalty

Missouri's governor denies clemency for Brian Dorsey, scheduled to be executed despite calls for his life to be saved.

Lawrence DeLisle Seeking Clemency for Drowning Deaths of His Four Children

Lawrence DeLisle, convicted of murder in the drowning deaths of his four children, is seeking clemency, claiming the deaths were an accident caused by a leg cramp. He has served 35 years of his five life sentences.

Legal Cases Involving Jesse Alvarez and Willie James Pye

Jesse Alvarez found guilty of murdering ex-girlfriend's fiancé; Georgia man Willie James Pye seeks clemency due to intellectual disability and remorse for killing ex-girlfriend; Pye's lawyers argue for life sentence based on his background; Pye's execution scheduled for March 20; Pye, Chester Adams, and a teenager convicted of robbing and killing Alicia Lynn Yarbrough in 1993; Pye's lawyers argue for resentencing due to inadequate trial preparation

Death Row Inmate Thomas Creech to be Executed in Idaho

Idaho's longest-serving death row inmate, Thomas Creech, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection after being convicted of multiple murders in three states. Despite efforts for clemency based on his behavior in prison, the execution is set to proceed.