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.

Relatives of an 8-year-old boy and his mother who were murdered by a Connecticut drug gang are outraged that a man convicted in the killings was one of nearly 2,500 people whose drug-related prison sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden in his last days in office.

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.

It seems to me that someone dropped the ball here to let his person get released,” Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said of Biden's move.

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.

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,

Adrian Peeler, whose drug sentence was commuted by President Biden, was convicted in the killing of a Bridgeport woman and her 8-year-old son in 1999.