The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate Phillip Hancock on Thursday, dismissing years of claims of self defense and a recommendation for clemency by the state’s parole board, Adam Kemp reports... Read more »
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has denied the clemency petition of Charlie Vaughn, the Arkansas man who has spent the last 30 years in prison for a crime he almost certainly did... Read more »
Catholic nun and anti-death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean is accusing Louisiana’s board of pardons of purposely delaying clemency petitions for death row inmates, reports Edward Helmore for The Guardian. Prejean filed... Read more »
A coalition of Democrats has penned a letter to President Biden urging him to grant clemency a Native American activist convicted in the 1970s of fatally shooting two FBI agents, reports Thomas... Read more »
In a 6-3 decision Ex parte Danny Richard Lane, the state’s highest criminal appeals court ruled that Texas’ historical doctrine of “judicial clemency” does not forgive sex offender registration. The Texas Legislature... Read more »