A preemptive pardon is a pardon issued before any charges, convictions, or sentences have occurred. Essentially, it’s a way ...

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others. The Biden administration is reportedly also considering preemptive ...

Biden's preemptive pardons ... He also commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, Native American activist convicted of killing two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975.

President Joe Biden on Monday issued an extraordinary slate of preemptive pardons for prominent ... old Peltier will serve the remainder of his sentence at home. Biden had been weighing issuing ...

“I don’t think President Biden should do preemptive pardons either ... pardoned 39 people for nonviolent crimes and commuted the sentences of almost 1,500 individuals who were transferred ...

Biden did not issue preemptive pardons in this batch for ... The president also commuted the sentences of most of the people on federal death row last month, leaving only three death sentences ...

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he was pardoning 39 people who were convicted of non-violent crimes and was commuting the sentences ... considering possible preemptive pardons for ...

Defendant was just 15 when he carried out the shootings; a judge said his age at the time prevented the sentence from being even longer.