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Pardon
A pardon is executive clemency forgiving a criminal offense; in the United States it rests on Article II's pardon clause, covers federal offenses except impeachment, removes punishments and civil disabilities but not the conviction, and differs from amnesty, commutation, and reprieve.
Pardon of January 6 United States Capitol attack defendants
Trump's January 6 pardon: Proclamation 10887 (January 20, 2025), full unconditional pardons for roughly 1,500 January 6 Capitol attack defendants, commutations for 14 including Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, and dismissal of pending cases.
Pardon of Richard Nixon
Ford's September 8, 1974 Proclamation 4311 granted Richard Nixon a full, free, absolute pardon for any federal offenses from January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974, a preemptive, never court-tested pardon that drew a sharp public backlash.
Parker family murders
The Parker family murders were the 1990 killings of a family of four in Quitman County, Mississippi, by Anthony Carr and Robert Simon Jr., both sentenced to death.
Parker–Hulme murder case
The Parker–Hulme murder case: 1954 Christchurch matricide in which Pauline Parker, 16, and Juliet Hulme, 15, killed Honora Parker with a brick in a stocking; insanity plea rejected, five years' detention, later Anne Perry and Heavenly Creatures.
Parole
Parole is conditional release from prison to serve the remaining sentence in the community under supervision, distinct from probation. Covers release boards, conditions, revocation, US and international systems, and effectiveness evidence.
Parricide
Parricide is the killing of a parent by their child, also covering murder of close relatives. About 2-5 percent of homicides; sons kill fathers, daughters mothers; mental illness common; Roman poena cullei; Japan abolished its statute in 1995.
Pascha (brothel)
Pascha, at Hornstraße 2, Cologne, Germany, is a 12-storey Laufhaus brothel opened in 1972 as the Eros-Center; with over 120 rooms it is Europe's largest brothel, renamed Pascha in 1995, insolvent in 2020 and later tied to an immigration investigation.
Pat DiCicco
Pat DiCicco (Pasquale Jiovanni DiCicco, 1909–1978), American talent agent and film producer, producer of Avalanche (1946); married Thelma Todd and Gloria Vanderbilt; alleged associate of Lucky Luciano.
Patriarca crime family
The Patriarca crime family is the New England La Cosa Nostra organization, named for boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca and based on Federal Hill, Providence; it ran gambling, extortion, and loansharking before federal RICO prosecutions in 1989-1991 dismantled its leadership.
Patricia Krenwinkel
Patricia Krenwinkel (Patricia Diane Krenwinkel), born 1947 in Los Angeles, is a Manson Family follower serving life for seven 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders; she is California's longest-serving female inmate.
Patricia Stallings
Patricia Stallings, Missouri woman wrongfully convicted in 1991 of murdering her son Ryan by antifreeze poisoning; GC-FID misread propionic acid, a methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) metabolite, as ethylene glycol; exonerated September 20, 1991.
Patricide
Patricide is the killing of one's father, a form of parricide (also matricide). Rare, about 4-5% of homicides; offenders mostly adult sons, often with psychosis, personality disorder, or abuse histories.
Patrick Adamiak
Patrick Tate Adamiak, US Navy veteran and firearms collector, convicted 2022 in E.D. Virginia under the National Firearms Act, sentenced to 20 years, denied certiorari, and pardoned by President Trump in September 2026.
Patrick Crusius
Patrick Wood Crusius (born 1998) is the American who killed 23 people and injured 22 in the racist August 3, 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting targeting Hispanics; he posted a 'Hispanic invasion' manifesto, pleaded guilty to 90 federal counts, and received 90 consecutive life sentences plus a state life term.
Patrick Eugene Prendergast
Patrick Eugene Prendergast, Irish immigrant news vendor, assassinated Chicago mayor Carter Harrison Sr. on October 28, 1893 over a denied Corporation Counsel appointment; convicted, insanity defense failed, hanged July 13, 1894.
Patrick Franklin Andrews
Patrick Franklin Andrews is an American federal inmate serving a life sentence for the 2007 stabbing murder of fellow inmate Jesse Harris at USP Hazelton, West Virginia, committed with Kevin Bellinger while Andrews was already serving 35 years to life for two earlier murders; distinct from California death-row inmate Jesse James Andrews.
Patrick Kearney
Patrick Wayne Kearney, known as the Trash Bag Killer, is an American serial killer who murdered young men and boys across Southern California until 1977.
Patrick Mackay
Patrick David Mackay, also known as David Groves, is a British serial killer born 1952 who confessed to 11 murders (1973-1975), including Father Anthony Crean; convicted of three manslaughters in 1975.
Patrizia Reggiani
Patrizia Reggiani, "Lady Gucci," Italian socialite and ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, convicted of instigating his 1995 Milan murder; 29-year sentence cut to 26, served 17 years, released 2016.
Patty Hearst
Patty Hearst (Patricia Campbell Hearst, born 1954), American heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, convicted of bank robbery after the Hibernia Bank surveillance footage, sentenced to seven years, commuted by Carter, pardoned by Clinton in 2001.
Paul Bateson
Paul Bateson, American former NYU radiology technician who appeared in The Exorcist's angiography scene, convicted in 1979 of murdering journalist Addison Verrill and suspected but never charged in the unsolved 1970s Bag Murders.
Paul Bernardo
Paul Bernardo: Canadian serial rapist and killer, convicted September 1, 1995 of murdering Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, declared a dangerous offender; his case triggered Ontario's Major Case Management System, a 2023 security-level transfer controversy, and denied parole in 2018, 2021, and 2024.
Paul Castellano
Paul "Big Paul" Castellano (Paul Constantine Castellano), boss of New York's Gambino crime family after Carlo Gambino's death, assassinated outside Sparks Steak House December 16, 1985, on John Gotti's orders.
Paul Devoe
Paul Gilbert Devoe III (born 1963), American spree killer who murdered six people in Texas and Pennsylvania in August 2007; sentenced to death in Travis County in 2009; federal habeas denied, Fifth Circuit COA denied in 2018.
Paul Durousseau
Paul Durousseau, the Jacksonville serial killer, a former taxi driver convicted in 2007 of the 1999 rape-murder of Tyresa Mack and indicted in five more killings; his 10–2 death sentence was vacated under Hurst and he was resentenced to life without parole in 2021.
Paul Ferris (Scottish writer)
Paul Ferris (born 1964, died 6 October 2026), nicknamed "The Wee Man", was a Glasgow gangland enforcer for Arthur Thompson turned best-selling author of The Ferris Conspiracy; distinct from footballer Paul Ferris and the Dylan Thomas biographer.
Paul Geidel
Paul Geidel (1894-1987) was an American bellboy convicted of second-degree murder in 1911 for killing broker William H. Jackson in New York's Hotel Iroquois; he served 68 years and 245 days, the longest US sentence ending in release, freed from Fishkill in 1980.
Paul John Knowles
Paul John Knowles (April 17, 1946 – December 18, 1974), the Casanova Killer, was an American spree killer who murdered at least 18 people across several states from July to November 1974 before being shot by GBI agent Ronnie Angel during a reported escape attempt near Lithia Springs, Georgia.
Paul Kelly (criminal)
Paul Kelly, born Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli (1876-1936), was an Italian-American ex-boxer who led New York's Five Points Gang, allied with Tammany Hall's Big Tim Sullivan, and rivaled Monk Eastman in the 1903 Rivington Street gunfight.