Read more clemency stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4632/clemency.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:57:10 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73716/va-gov-denies-clemency-to-dc-sniper.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVirginia Gov. Tim Kaine has denied clemency for Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for Muhammad's execution at 9pm tonight. Muhammad, whose appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court yesterday, will die by lethal injection, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch . His 2002 shooting spree with younger accomplice Lee Boyd...http://www.newser.com/story/73716/va-gov-denies-clemency-to-dc-sniper.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 11:13:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/67363/scotland-defies-us-releases-lockerbie-bomber.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, has been released on compassionate grounds and will return to Libya, reports the BBC. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was sentenced to life for the murder of 270 people, but he is suffering from prostate cancer...http://www.newser.com/story/67363/scotland-defies-us-releases-lockerbie-bomber.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Aug 2009 7:51:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65659/tax-cheats-flood-irs-looking-to-come-clean.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA crackdown on tax evasion has led to a flood of wealthy Americans lining up to reveal their offshore accounts to the IRS, reports the Wall Street Journal . A limited-time offer of lower fines, coupled with the ongoing probe of Swiss bank accounts held by UBS, has produced a stampede...http://www.newser.com/story/65659/tax-cheats-flood-irs-looking-to-come-clean.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 30 Jul 2009 9:07:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49134/bush-rejected-pardons-for-milken-other-high-rollers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGeorge Bush formally denied pardons for several prominent politicians and businessmen on his last day in office, the Justice Department told the Los Angeles Times today. Among those whose pleas fell on deaf ears were Michael Milken, a businessman convicted of insider trading and stock evasion, and Randall Cunningham, a...http://www.newser.com/story/49134/bush-rejected-pardons-for-milken-other-high-rollers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Jan 2009 15:00:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47483/holder-pushed-clemency-for-puerto-rican-militants.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama’s attorney-general nominee fought for clemency for 16 militant Puerto Rican nationalists during his time in the Clinton administration, the Los Angeles Times reports. Eric Holder pushed Justice Department subordinates to pave the way to Clinton’s clemency grant, documents show, sparking fury from law-enforcement officials who’d tackled a US...http://www.newser.com/story/47483/holder-pushed-clemency-for-puerto-rican-militants.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Jan 2009 12:36:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/46235/bush-retracts-pardon-for-son-of-big-gop-donor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Bush withdrew a presidential pardon today after it emerged that the father of a convicted Brooklyn developer donated $28,500 to the Republican Party, CNN reports. The president’s counsel approved clemency for Isaac Toussie on charges of mail fraud and false statements to federal officials, White House spokeswoman Dana...http://www.newser.com/story/46235/bush-retracts-pardon-for-son-of-big-gop-donor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 24 Dec 2008 16:55:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43324/conrad-black-asks-bush-for-clemency.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOnetime media mogul Conrad Black is seeking clemency from President Bush in hopes that his 6½-year jail sentence will be commuted, the CBC reports. Black, the former chair of newspaper firm Hollinger International, was convicted on fraud and obstruction of justice charges in 2007 for channeling $6 million from his...http://www.newser.com/story/43324/conrad-black-asks-bush-for-clemency.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Nov 2008 9:49:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/32846/requests-for-pardons-flood-white-house.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Bush is nearing the end of his term, and felons are coming out of the woodwork in historic numbers to ask for pardons and reduced sentences, the New York Times reports. It is not unusual for there to be a spike in pardons granted by a president in his...http://www.newser.com/story/32846/requests-for-pardons-flood-white-house.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 19 Jul 2008 11:33:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/14718/huckabee-rocked-little-rock.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMike Huckabee surged to the top of the polls in the Republican presidential contest partly because of his squeaky clean image, but the persona emerging from years as governor of Arkansas is quite different, the New York Times reports. Supporters and critics alike remember him as a hard-charging iconoclast with...http://www.newser.com/story/14718/huckabee-rocked-little-rock.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 22 Dec 2007 11:55:17 CST