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18 Nov 2009, 8:22 pm
Allan Turner writes, "Board: Commute death sentence in Houston case," for the Houston Chronicle.The state pardons board today recommended that Houston killer Robert Thompson's scheduled Thursday execution be commuted to life in prison after his lawyer successfully argued that he was not the triggerman in a December 1996 convenience store robbery-murder.Gov. [read post]
21 Oct 2003, 12:16 pm
AP reports today that the family of a woman executed in 1945 has asked the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to pardon her. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 9:56 am
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday denied clemency for Warren Hill, who is set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday. [read post]
5 May 2011, 5:50 am
Texas' Board of Pardons and Paroles may no longer impose "Special Condition X" - i.e., labeling someone a sex offender and requiring sex-offender treatment, registration, etc.. - when they weren't convicted of a sex-crime and the state has held no evidentiary hearing to determine it's warranted, according to a Court of Criminal Appeals opinion issued yesterday. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 3:23 am
Aug. 30, 2007Parole board votes to spare condemned killerBy MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated PressHUNTSVILLE, Texas - The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommendedThursday that Gov. [read post]
13 May 2009, 12:34 am
Rick Perry's nominees to serve on the state board of pardons and parole over concerns she is unqualified for the job.The 27-4 vote Wednesday to send the nomination of Shanda Perkins of Burleson back to committee was a resounding bipartisan rejection of the former banker. [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 8:20 am
The pardon had been recommended by the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 4:35 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole has recommended a pardon for Timothy Cole, who died in prison of an asthma attack before DNA could prove he was innocent of the rape for which he was falsely convicted. [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 4:58 am
July 17, 2007GeorgiaGeorgia parole board issues 90-day stay of execution for death row inmateBy Kate Randall, World SocialistThe Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles temporarily halted theexecution of Troy Anthony Davis on Monday, issuing a 90-day stay ofexecution less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to die by lethalinjection.Davis, 38, was convicted in 1991 of the 1989 murder of Mark Allen MacPhail,a Savannah, Georgia police officer. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 7:13 am
Davis’s lawyers that shaky witness testimony and a lack of physical evidence presented enough doubt about his guilt to spare him death, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles ruled on Tuesday morning that Mr. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 8:35 am
But it raises the question of whether the Board of Pardons and Paroles is equipped to hold these extra hearings, as well as other new hearings the courts may soon require. [read post]
22 May 2012, 1:31 pm
The Montana Board of Pardons and Parole on Monday unanimously recommended against clemency for death-row inmate and convicted killer Ronald Smith, saying his death penalty should stand. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 7:46 am
The Board of Pardons and Paroles may not like the court's decision, but at this point they're either dragging their feet or thumbing their nose at the court (depending on which body part you'd like to choose for a metaphor). [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 3:30 pm
Regular readers are aware of the controversy surrounding the Board of Pardons and Paroles assigning sex-offender conditions to parolees who've never been convicted of a sex crime. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 5:02 am
The Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles yesterday unanimously recommended clemency for Thomas Bartlett Whitaker, the first time in a decade the BPP has recommended against a death sentence. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 3:33 pm
For more information about the policies and procedures of the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, contact an experienced lawyer familiar with the Board. [read post]
6 Dec 2006, 7:25 am
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 5-0 against granting early... [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 10:39 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has recommended a stay of execution for Kenneth Foster. [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 2:12 am
Setting up an agency in the model of the Parole Board of Canada to help the Executive Head in decision making could be considered. [read post]
16 Feb 2013, 3:08 pm
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman this week reported ("Senators propose removing parole duties from prison agency," Feb. 13) that parole board chair Rissie Owens has been "quietly shopping" a proposal to shift control of parole operations from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
