Judge Dale E. Ho will weigh the request after the resignation of Manhattan’s U.S. attorney and her accusations of misconduct.

Nance appealed and a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit concluded that since lethal injection is the ...

Differing interpretations of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson’s classic 1940 speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” figured in ...

Roughly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders nationwide received a grant of executive clemency in January, including 10 people in ...

U.S. presidents have the constitutional power to exercise leniency toward people who have committed federal crimes through ...