(WHTM) — In the 1970’s, Governor Milton Shapp commuted 251 life sentences. In the decades since, those numbers have declined dramatically. Critics insist it’s not because more bad people are ...

Gail Stallworth still couldn’t have predicted what would happen to her application. That’s because it has likely never happened in the board’s history, experts told Spotlight PA.

Members of the committee met with Gov. Milton Shapp, state Sen. Martin Murray and state Rep. James Musto, who passed away just a few weeks before the centennial was celebrated May 23-30.

At that time, he was the governor of Georgia, addressing the media in Altoona while campaigning for the re-election of Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp. Carter’s ascent in the Democratic Party ...