EditorialPalestinians take part in a ceremony following the release of prisoner Karim Younis after spending 40 years in Israeli prisons, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - 05 Jan 2023
EditorialRosemary Dyer sits on her patio at Home Free, the transitional housing complex where she has lived since her sentence for killing her abusive husband was commuted, on Treasure Island in San Francisco, August 27, 2021. (Talia Herman/The New York Times)
EditorialIn a photo from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, Julius Jones, who was convicted in the 1999 murder of Paul Howell and maintains his innocence, on Feb. 5, 2018. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via The New York Times)
EditorialWallie Howard, an undercover police officer killed in the line of duty in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1990. (U.S. Department of Justice via The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump boards Air Force One for the last time, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Jan. 20, 2021. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialJudith Negron, whose sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump, holds a Trump flag in Orlando, Fla., shortly after her release from prison on Feb. 18, 2020. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/The New York Times)
EditorialAlice Johnson watches President Donald Trump sign her pardon, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Aug. 28, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
EditorialRoger Stone walks out of Federal District Court in Washington, Nov. 14, 2019, after being found guilty on seven felony charges, and President Donald Trump later commuted the prison sentence of Stone, his longtime friend. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialRoger Stone, President Donald Trump's former adviser and longtime friend, departs a federal courthouse after his sentencing, in Washington, Feb. 20, 2020. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)
EditorialFormer Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his family talk with reporters outside his Chicago home on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. (Laura McDermott/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland where he announced he commuted the corruption sentence of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, before departing on a trip to California, Tuesday, Feb 18, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump stands with Alice Marie Johnson, whose life sentence for a nonviolent drug conviction he commuted, at the White House in Washington, April 1, 2019. (Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times)
EditorialDahleen Glanton: A kid charged with his friend?s murder during a botched burglary in 2008 got a second chance. The teens charged in suburban Chicago deserve one too
EditorialGeorge Vaux Bacon. A German spy in the First World War. An American journalist recruited in New York, he was sentenced to death in 1917, later commuted to life imprisonment. German Spies at Bay: being an actual record of the German espionage in Great B...