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Screenshot Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 after being convicted of running the dark web marketplace Silk Road. His family have set up the twitter account @RealRossU, which relays messages Ulbricht dictates from prison. The account has helped get over 55,000 signatures for a petition asking for clemency for Ulbricht. His […]
It seems Kim Kardashian West successfully convinced President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother serving a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. The White House confirmed on Wednesday that the president signed a commutation for Johnson, who has served over 20 years in prison since she […]
Virginia’s governor has rejected calls to spare the life of convicted killer William Morva, despite his mental disorder, as well as appeals to halt the execution from the daughter of one of his victims. Morva’s lawyers insist that he is suffering from a severe mental illness that the jury were not aware of when they […]
. REUTERS/Larry Downing/Files From one angle, former President Barack Obama was the most merciful president in U.S. history, granting commutations to more than 1,700 federal prisoners. As a president who took issue broadly with the country’s incarceration rate, he viewed clemency as way he could push back, writing last month in the Harvard Law Review […]
