A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping his quest to limit the pardon powers of governors in his state has gotten a jolt of momentum ...

Republican Sen. Chris McDaniel hopes this is the year lawmakers agree to send voters a constitutional amendment that would ...

On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with civil rights attorney Jenipher R. Jones about the commutation of Leonard Peltier’s sentence. Jones, Managing Attorney of For the People | A People’s Legal ...

These deliberate, last-minute actions display the unchecked nature of executive branch pardon powers. Most ...

OpEd: Sen. Chris McDaniel has proposed a constitutional amendment proposal suspending gubernatorial pardon and commutation powers from 30 days before an election until the next inauguration.

This man has been in prison for nearly 48 years. He is America’s longest serving political prisoner. He has not been pardoned ...

But some participants were also protesting the 1977 conviction of Native American activist Leonard Peltier on murder charges, according to Jack Magee of New Bedford, an attorney who worked for ...

More than 100 people gathered Jan. 25 on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the site of the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two FBI agents and a Native man dead ...

Roach was present during the June 26, 1975, shootout that left two FBI agents and a Native activist dead and led to Peltier's nearly five-decade imprisonment for aiding and abetting in the agents' ...

(Former FBI director Christopher Wray had been vocal about not amending Peltier’s sentence.) Three Native Americans were prosecuted for the deaths of the FBI agents; Peltier was convicted while ...

against the urgings of former FBI Director Christopher Wray. In a private letter obtained by The Hill, Wray described Peltier as “a remorseless killer” and argued that “any relief from his ...

Christopher Wray, who became FBI director in 2017 before he retired Monday as President Donald Trump took office for his second term, had tried to persuade Biden not to commute Peltier's sentence ...