ABCNEWS - Man whose life sentence was commuted by Kristi Noem faces charges in teen's death
McKenna Wendel was reported missing in mid-March and found dead in a rural area near Brookings, South Dakota, after a dayslong search, police said.
NYTIMES (Jack Healy) - Release of Tina Peters, Election Denier and Former County Clerk, Divides Colorado City
The former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., is scheduled to be set free on Monday, after her nine-year prison sentence was commuted by Gov. Jared Polis.
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WASHINGTONPOST (Daniel Wu) - Alabama governor commutes death sentence of man who didn’t kill anyone
Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, participated in a 1991 robbery that led to a death but had left the building when an accomplice killed the victim inside.
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