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Biden has granted the first three pardons of his term, and has also commuted the sentences of 75 other people with nonviolent, drug-related convictions.

Lucio, who was convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter after the infant fell down the stairs, is set to be executed next week.

"I am grateful to Governor Stitt for the opportunity to serve in this role," Adam Luck tweeted as he agreed to resign per the governor's request.

The California governor commuted Rahsaan "New York" Thomas' 55 1/2 years to life sentence, now putting his fate in the hands of the state parole board.

The trucker was originally sentenced to 110 years in prison for 27 charges, including four counts of vehicular manslaughter.

The prosecution filed a request last week for a judge to reconsider the sentence of Aguilera-Mederos, and potentially reduce it from 110 years to 20-30 years.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis said he received and is reviewing the clemency application for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who was sentenced to 100 years in prison.

"He was not drunk or under the influence, his brakes on the semi tractor-trailer failed," Kardashian-West wrote in a tweet on Tuesday night.

Gilbert Postelle, sentenced to two life sentences for his role in a 2005 shooting that killed four in Oklahoma, was denied clemency Wednesday by a 4-1 vote.

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board rejected a clemency request for Donald Grant in a 4-1 vote despite his lawyers arguing he suffered from brain damage.

"Tiger King" star Joe Exotic, who was found guilty of paying a hitman to kill Carole Baskin, says a confession in "Tiger King 2" proves his innocence.

Jordan, who was freed from prison in 2014, has maintained Jones was responsible for Howell's death, but Jones has said Jordan pulled the trigger.

Jones, 41, of Oklahoma is scheduled to be executed on Thursday for the 1999 killing of businessman Paul Howell. He has always maintained he was set up.

The petition was rapidly gaining signatures in the hours before Thursday's scheduled execution in Oklahoma.

Julius Jones could face execution this Thursday if Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt does not grant clemency.

The Board recommended in a 3-1 vote that the governor alter Jones' sentence to life in prison with the possibility of parole, citing evidence doubts.

Peter Paige was one of three people who were killed by David Gilbert's Weather Underground group during an armed robbery in New York.

The outgoing governor of New York handed out four sentence commutations, one pardon, and made a parole board referral in his final moments.

The former NSA contractor was not included in Trump's last-minute clemency list.

Notable people pardoned by Trump today include former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and rapper Lil Wayne.

A 71-year-old supporter of President Donald Trump reportedly said that he was forced to "wonder" about the honesty of the outgoing president after he recently commuted the decades-long prison sentence of a man who stole his life savings in a Ponzi scheme.

Biden can restore some respectability to the office by cleaning up the debris left by his predecessor's unorthodox clemency approach.

Charles Kushner admitted in 2004 to videotaping an encounter between his brother-in-law and a sex worker in order to delay an investigation into his illegal campaign donations.

Jones was sentenced to death nearly 20 years ago, despite many criticizing the way that his case was handled. Kardashian West and other celebrities have spoken out against his sentencing.

The California congressman said he support the president's move to grant Stone clemency, according to a post on CNN correspondent Manu Raju's Twitter account.

The clemency order commuted the sentence of Roger Stone, who was set to report at a federal prison in Georgia Tuesday.

Trump commuted Roger Stone's federal prison sentence after his friend and former political adviser had been convicted for lying to Congress, among other charges.

Billy Joe Wardlow was sentenced to death for a crime he committed 27 years ago when he was 18. He is set to be executed in Texas on July 8.

Byron Lewis Black, 64, is scheduled to be put to death on October 4 for the murder of his girlfriend and her two daughters in 1988.

CNN host Anderson Cooper took Rod Blagojevich to task Friday, after the former Illinois governor compared himself to Nelson Mandela and insisted that he had been a "political prisoner" freed by clemency from President Donald Trump on Tuesday.