Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was convicted ...

The two men pleaded guilty to killing a Waverly police officer in 1998, but their attorney claims they only made that plea to ...

As President Joe Biden approaches the end of his term, he has announced a series of last-minute commutations and pardons, ...

On his final day in office, President Joe Biden pardoned five people, including a prominent civil rights activist who died in ...

Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving ...

President Biden used his clemency power today, his last full day of presidency, to pardon 5 individuals, and commute the ...

Outgoing US president Biden has issued a final batch of pardons, as well as commuting two Americans' sentences.

On his last full day in the White House President Joe Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who served nearly eight years in prison on a drug-related offense.

President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil ...

Kemba Smith Pradia was convicted of a non-violent drug offense in 1994, despite never selling or using drugs. She was ...