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A convicted criminal whose prison sentence was commuted by former President Joe Biden is back behind bars. Willie Frank Peterson, 52, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 2023, and was sentenced to six years and three months in jail. His sentence began on Sept. 13, 2023, according to court records obtained by Fox News Digital. Per a Jan. 17 executive grant of clemency, Biden commuted Peterson’s sentence to 20 months, allowing him to leave custody shortly after. But on Monday, Peterson was booked for multiple drug-related offensives in Dothan, Alabama. The Dothan Police Department charged Peterson with two...

A murderer who ruthlessly gunned down two innocent female bank workers has now demanded to be let out of prison - just days after President Biden saved him from death row. Brandon Council, 38, who was sentenced to death for the cold-blooded murders of bank employees Donna Major and Katie Skeen, filed the bold request for 'compassionate release' on Friday. Council murdered the two women during a horrific bank raid in Conway, South Carolina, in 2017. After a three-week trial, he was convicted in September 2019, with judges handing down the death sentence the following month. But in a controversial...

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was granting 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations in what his administation called the “largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.” But it’s not Thursday’s set of commutations that have caught the attention of concerned Americans — it’s those that were quietly given weeks ago to Chinese spies.X user Nick Sortor posted that “Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p*rnography. WHY?”But the thing is, Biden didn’t “just” commute the sentences for these criminals — he did it quietly only days before Thanksgiving.While most Americans...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — A Rochester man whose sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama has pleaded guilty to new drug charges. Federal prosecutors say 46-year-old Ruben Bullock pleaded guilty to possessing with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and violating federal supervised release. Bullock's sentence for a previous drug conviction was commuted by President Obama in 2016 and was still on supervised release when he was arrested in January. Prosecutors say he was arrested when probation officers carried out probation searches on his houses, believing he was engaging in criminal activity. According to prosecutors, they found...

A drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Barack Obama is back behind bars on drug charges, the San Antonio Express-News reports. Robert M. Gil, 68, was caught with more than two pounds of cocaine last Thursday following a high-speed chase in Texas. He allegedly crashed his car into another driver and undercover police cars while fleeing from a drug deal, reports the Express-News. Gil was one of 1,385 federal inmates whose sentences were commuted by Obama – he was released in 2015 and lived in a halfway house before settling into a place of his own. He now faces...

President Obama commuted the sentences of 58 inmates Thursday as part of his ongoing initiative to release federal prisoners who have received severe mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenses. With this latest round of commutations, Obama has granted clemency to a total 306 inmates, 110 of whom were serving life sentences. Obama has said he will continue granting commutations during his final months in office to inmates who meet certain criteria set out by the Justice Department. Since the Obama administration launched its high-profile clemency initiative two years ago, thousands of inmates have applied. More than 9,000 petitions are pending....

Following an administration-wide commitment to reform sentencing guidelines for non-violent drug offenders, President Obama on Tuesday commuted prison time for 22 people convicted of federal drug crimes, many of whom faced decades to life behind bars.

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Following an order from the US Supreme Court, Rick Perry issued 28 commutations that will require death row inmates who were 17 at the time they committed their crimes to serve life in prison.

Governor Ryan’s Ego Injection By Joseph J. Sabia In the last three days, Illinois Governor George Ryan (R) has granted pardons to four convicted murderers and commuted the death sentences of 156 others. Liberals are in seventh heaven over the governor’s recent decision, using the phrase “raw courage” to describe Governor Ryan’s action approximately seven billion times. The truth, however, is that the governor is neither courageous nor bold. Rather, he behaved like a tyrant drunk with power. His action will result in more innocent victims of heinous crimes in the state of Illinois. Governor Ryan’s decision to commute over...