Adrian Peeler, 48, of Bridgeport, was convicted in 1999 of conspiracy to commit double murder. His federal drug sentence will now expire on Feb. 17.

Adrian Peeler convicted of conspiracy to murder in case that left a mother and her son dead before they could testify against his brother, another killer.

Former President Joe Biden's commutations of Connecticut federal cases included clemency for Bridgeport's Adrian Peeler and Jermayne Butler of New Haven.

Bridgeport Mayor Ganim called it a ‘terrible miscarriage of justice.’ He’s right too,” state Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding, R-Brookfield, said.

A Connecticut drug kingpin convicted in the deaths of an 8-year-old boy and his mother was granted clemency by former President Joe Biden — in a stunning 11th-hour move slammed by fellow Democrats. Adrian Peeler,

A man convicted in the killing of an 8-year-old boy and his mother in Bridgeport in 1999 has been granted clemency by now former president Joe Biden, drawing criticism across party lines. The case and trial drew huge public interest and even lead to changed laws around witness protection here in the state.

Former President Joe Biden has continued a tradition started by President Ronald Reagan, who left behind a letter in the White House for his successor, George H.W. Bush.

President Biden issued clemency to Adrian Peeler, a notorious Bridgeport drug dealer implicated in the 1999 execution-style killings of a mother and her son.

A man involved in a high-profile murder case in Bridgeport from the 1990s was among the hundreds of convicts granted clemency by former President Joe Biden. Adrian

For some reason, in a flurry of last-minute clemencies earlier this month, President Joe Biden let the man with a kid’s blood on his hands out of prison when he commuted Peeler’s federal drug sentence.

Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon,

After a series of controversial pardons, Blumenthal proposes constitutional amendment to curb presidential clemency powers