Mike Huckabee doesn't deserve the bad press he is getting. In 2000, when he was governor of Arkansas, Huckabee commuted the 108-year prison sentence of a man named Maurice Clemmons. ...more

December 14, 2009

If it weren't for bad luck, Mike Huckabee would have no luck at all. Of all the deranged criminals in the country, Maurice Clemmons - granted clemency by then-Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas almost a decade ago - recently murdered four police officers in Washington state. Seldom has an act of mercy been more publicly or horribly betrayed. ...more

December 11, 2009

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection when he is executed next month. ...more

October 27, 2009

President Bush granted prison releases to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer fueled the national debate over illegal immigration. ...more

January 19, 2009

The Washington Post With a backlog of applications piled up at the Justice Department, high-profile criminals and their well-connected lawyers increasingly are appealing directly to President George W. Bush for special consideration on pardons and clemency. ...more

November 25, 2008

If you thought the Nov. 4 election was over at 10 p.m., when Susan Benton won the sheriff's race, take a look at the Highlands County elections office. ...more

November 22, 2008

Convicted felons may get to vote in Florida next month because the state doesn't have time to investigate every possible felon on the rolls, election officials said Tuesday. ...more

October 15, 2008

A 20 percent cut to the budget for the state parole commission may result in a slowdown for people seeking clemency or restoration of civil rights, the chairwoman of the state Parole Commission said Thursday. ...more

June 6, 2008

Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, a condemned killer who shot his live-in girlfriend is likely to become the first inmate put to death since a U.S. Supreme Court review halted executions in September. ...more

May 6, 2008

Something odd happened when Bob Butterworth called a "press availability" in the Capitol rotunda last spring to announce excessive force might have been used at a Panhandle juvenile detention facility. ...more

November 25, 2007