Arizona Board of Executive Clemency
The board that decides commutations, pardons, and release and revocation hearings, and whose recommendations reach the governor. We track its decisions, audits, and the people waiting on it.
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- Will excess clemency hamper Hobbs’ re-election bid?

- Quick action by governor, lawmakers needed to fix shorthanded Clemency Board

- Arizona death row inmate declines clemency, writes apology ahead of execution

- Arizona prisoner set to be executed apologizes, says he won’t seek clemency
- Arizona man in alleged wrongful murder conviction hoping for presidential clemency

- Arizona death row prisoner’s clemency bid rejected by board
- Clemency Denied for South Phoenix Man Serving 16-Year Pot Sentence

- Board rejects clemency for Tucson girl's killer

- Clemency denied for Frank Atwood, who killed Tucson girl in 1984

- Arizona clemency board rejects death row prisoner Frank Atwood's request for mercy
- Arizona death-row inmate unanimously denied clemency ahead of June execution

- Death row inmate convicted for killing Tucson girl in 1984 denied clemency

- Clemency bid denied for Arizona prisoner set for execution

- Arizona state board rejects clemency bid by Clarence Dixon

- Death-row inmate Clarence Dixon unanimously denied by clemency board

- Arizona board denies death row prisoner Clarence Dixon commutation
- Legal team seeks clemency for blind, mentally ill Arizona man scheduled for execution
- Arizona death row prisoner seeks clemency citing mental illness, disabilities
- Clemency hearing underway for Arizona death row inmate

- Legal challenge claims Arizona clemency board is stacked with former law enforcement officers, violating law
- After 50 Years In Prison, Arizona Inmate Gets Clemency

- After 50 years in prison for murder, Arizona inmate gets clemency
- Ducey denies clemency for former Phoenix police officer
- Clemency Board urges reduced sentence for cop in 2010 killing

- Prison Reform Group Alleges Clemency Board Unfairly Targeted Offender
