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6 May 2009, 4:51 am
I'm not the only one, apparently, dissatisfied with Shanda Perkins' nomination for the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [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]
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]
8 Sep 2011, 7:46 am
The Statesman published a brief description of a case that attorney Bill Habern had notified me about, signalling a growing frustration by federal courts with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles over their application of Condition X to parolees not convicted of sex crimes. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 12:41 am
This week Jordan Smith at the Austin Chronicle offers up a fine article on failures of the Board of Pardons and Parole to follow its release guidelines, and a pending lawsuit filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project to seek an end to the cloak of secrecy surrounding parole decisions. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 6:40 am
Texas' longest serving governor rejected two-thirds of recommendations for clemency sent to him by the Board of Pardons and Paroles, for the most part allowing the constitutional pardon power to atrophy on his watch. [read post]
26 Jun 2011, 5:20 pm
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin decided on May 4, 2011 that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles does not have the power, without first providing due process, to order prisoners who were not convicted of sex offenses to be released on parole under sex offender supervision requirements. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 10:34 am
As covered here and here at StandDown Texas Project, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted today to recommend that Texas Governor Rick Perry commute Kenneth Foster's death sentence to life, and Governor Perry has now announced he has commuted Foster's death sentence. [read post]
5 Aug 2008, 3:03 pm
"Death-row inmate Medellin doesn't get a reprieve from Texas pardons board": This article appears today in The Dallas Morning News. [read post]
7 Jan 2010, 10:02 am
We believe a court would likely conclude that the Board of Pardons and Paroles is authorized to recommend that the Governor grant a posthumous pardon. [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]
13 Sep 2011, 12:39 pm
Duane Buck's attorney, Kate Black with Texas Defender Service, has issued a statement following the action by the Board of Pardons and Paroles: “The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles’ recommendation against granting clemency to Duane Buck fails to recognize what the highest legal officer in the State of Texas had acknowledged: No one should be executed based on a process tainted by considerations of… [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 10:29 am
Earlier today the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted 6-1 to reccomend commutation of Foster's sentence. [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 10:51 am
Email addy for Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles bpp-pio@tdcj.state.tx.us Stop the Execution of Jeff Wood and Grant Him Clemency [www.governor.state.tx.us] Office of Governor Perry, P.O. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 6:28 am
But I have never been free.Two months later, DNA evidence proved my innocence.Because I pleaded no-contest to the murder, I cannot be declared actually innocent unless the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends to Governor Rick Perry that I be pardoned and Texas Governor Rick Perry agrees and sets me free.Without being exonerated, I feel I am still in a Texas prison.Please sign my petition and ask the… [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 6:30 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected clemency, and Governor... [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 8:07 am
Yesterday afternoon, the Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a 60-day reprieve for Hank Skinner to allow time for DNA testing. [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 8:20 am
The pardon had been recommended by the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 2:06 am
Normally, the Texas Senate rubber stamps the Governor's appointments to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, but one of Rick Perry's three appointees announced last week perhaps deserves closer vetting by the Senate. [read post]
15 May 2009, 8:57 am
Rick Perry's nominees to the state Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
