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18 Dec 2014, 8:04 am
Rick Perry rejected two thirds of positive recommendations he received from his appointees on the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 3:19 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended a pardon in May and Amezquita anxiously awaited the day when Gov. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 6:34 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles made the rare recommendation Wednesday for 34-year-old Robert Lee Thompson, who was not the triggerman in the fatal shooting of a Houston convenience store clerk. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 4:13 am
Rick Perry today commuted the death sentence of Kenneth Eugene Foster of San Antonio to life imprisonment after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (TBPP) recommended such action. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 4:24 pm
The convicted murderer of prominent Abilene resident Mary Eula Sears had, at least in the eyes of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, paid his debt to society. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 2:57 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is expected to announce its recommendation in the Jeff Wood case today. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 7:42 pm
The Board of Pardons and Paroles has rejected Jeff Wood's clemency petition. [read post]
20 Jul 2007, 8:26 am
Check it out here where Grits tells us the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole has identified 2,324 separate acts which the state Legislature has declared felonies! [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 2:15 pm
District Judge Sam Sparks of Austin raises some serious concerns about the way the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles conducts business.The board apparently has established a policy that allows corrections officials to classify some parolees as sex offenders although they have not been convicted of a sex crime.The finding does not involve a jury or [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 8:30 am
The Houston Chronicle has reported that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles yesterday rejected Joseph Nichols' plea for a commutation of his sentence to life in prison. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 11:42 am
The move by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to reduce Daniel Greene's death sentence to life in prison without parole came days after the board stayed his execution. [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 5:50 am
In 2007 and 2009 the Texas Lege invested significantly in treatment programs in and out of prison (to avoid even more expensive new prison building), and now that those resources are available the parole board has been releasing those sorts of petty offenders at higher rates.I was citing those stats from memory, but looking at the Board of Pardons and Paroles' annual report (pdf), I was pretty close. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 12:28 am
After all, Texas' Board of Pardons and Parole is notoriously "tough. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 8:28 am
Yesterday the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to commute the death sentence of inmate Troy Davis, who was convicted in the 1989 death of a police officer. [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 2:32 pm
For whatever reason, probably because my recent Rissie Owens Watch (she's the chair of the state board of pardons and parole, see here, here, and here) I've received quite a few private emails recently asking advice about a relative's particular parole case. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 5:16 am
What follows is a revised version of that letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 9:17 am
AP reports:The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted today to recommend that Gov. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 10:40 am
Willingham was convicted of arson and murder for allegedly setting a fire that killed his three children, and he was executed in 2004 although a prominent arson scientist notified the Board of Pardon and Parole and the Governor before his execution that the critical evidence in the case was incorrect and based on bad science. [read post]
15 May 2011, 9:41 am
For the second time this month, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has told the Department of Criminal Justice and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to begin holding a lot more hearings to provide parolees due process, decisions which come with a high financial price-tag that's accounted for in neither the House nor Senate budgets.Earlier, the CCA ruled that the Board of Pardons and Paroles couldn't apply sex-offender… [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 7:26 am
On Tuesday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a request to commute his sentence. [read post]
