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After 25 years, Gov. Evers announces commutations will be available in Wisconsin

Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday that he had signed two executive orders to begin offering commutations, a reduction of a criminal sentence by the governor’s authority to grant cle...

Commutations are back. Here’s what incarcerated people and their loved ones should know.

Commutations in Wisconsin: A Rare Opportunity for Relief

Gov. Tony Evers announced the creation of an executive commutation process, the first opportunity in 25 years for prisoners in Wisconsin. Evan McCarthy reviews what we know about t...

How Evers' plan to issue commutations works

Gov. Tony Evers is creating an advisory panel to recommend commutations, a ‘form of executive clemency that reduces an individual’s punishment — most often by shortening a prison s...

Colorado governor commutes Trump ally Tina Peters' prison sentence

Gov. Jared Polis announced he is commuting the sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was facing more than eight years in state prison for allowing unauthorized acce...

Former Colorado county clerk convicted for vote tampering gets sentence commuted by Democratic governor

Tina Peters was sentenced to eight years in prison for allowing unauthorized access to voter machines during the 2020 presidential election, but she's going be a free woman very so...

Evers’ commutation orders trigger sense of urgency for people in prison, advocates 

Gov. Tony Evers issued two executive orders this month that make the commutation of prison sentences available again in Wisconsin. Executive Order 287, creating the Governor’s Comm...

Tony Evers revived commutations, but what will Wisconsin’s next governor do?

News Wrap: Colorado Gov. Polis commuting sentence of Tina Peters

In our news wrap Friday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is commuting the prison sentence of 2020 election denier Tina Peters, the Justice Department announced the arrest of an Iraqi nat...

Jared Polis' Controversial Commutation of Tina Peters' Prison Sentence Upholds Freedom of Speech

Colorado's governor agreed with a state appeals court that the former Mesa County clerk had been punished for her wacky beliefs about the 2020 election as well as her illegal condu...

Colorado's Democratic governor commutes ex-election clerk Tina Peters' sentence after Trump pressure

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is commuting the sentence of a former county clerk and election conspiracy theorist following pressure from President Donald Trump.

Jared Polis Did the Right Thing

On Friday afternoon, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued 35 pardons. He also commuted the sentences of nine prisoners, allowing them to be released years before they otherwise would b...

Colorado's Democratic governor commutes ex-election clerk Tina Peters' sentence after Trump pressure

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters following pressure from President Donald Trump, the latest instance of the pre...

Gov. Evers: Signs executive orders restoring commutations process in Wisconsin

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today signed two executive orders to reinstate Wisconsin’s process for issuing commutations, including creating a new Commutation Advisory Board. The gove...

Colorado Gov. Commutes Sentence of Former County Clerk Sentenced to Jail for Election Tampering

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former clerk for the state's Mesa County, after she was sentenced to serve nine years in prison in October 202...

Colorado Gov. Polis cuts Tina Peters’ prison sentence in half

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, an election denier who was convicted and sentenced for her role in a breach of he...

Election denier Tina Peters set for release after Colorado governor commutes sentence

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced Friday that he’s commuting the prison sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk and 2020 election denier who was sentenced to nine years be...

Colorado Gov. Polis commutes ex-election clerk Tina Peters' sentence after Trump pressure

Trump has championed the case of Peters, a 70-year-old former county clerk who was sentenced to nine years behind bars after being convicted in a scheme to make a copy of her count...

Colorado governor cuts sentence of election denier Tina Peters in half

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters will have her nine-year sentence for tampering with Colorado's election systems in the 2020 election cut in half, Gov. Polis told Scripps News...

Colorado governor cuts sentence of election denier Tina Peters in half

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters will have her nine-year sentence for tampering with Colorado's election systems in the 2020 election cut in half, Gov. Polis told Scripps News...

Colorado's Democratic governor will let Trump ally Tina Peters out of prison early

Gov. Jared Polis' controversial commutation follows a pressure campaign by the Trump administration to free Tina Peters, an ex-county official who was convicted of tampering with e...

Iran commutes death sentences for eight women protesters amid tensions

Iran's commutation of death sentences may indicate a strategic de-escalation, but it doesn't suggest an imminent regime change. The post Iran commutes death sentences for eight wom...

Colorado's Democratic governor commutes ex-election clerk Tina Peters' sentence after Trump pressure

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters following pressure from President Donald Trump.

Colorado Governor Grants Clemency to Tina Peters

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) “will reduce Tina Peters’ sentence by half, he confirmed Friday, appearing to bend to demands from President Donald Trump — while ignoring the pleas o...