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19 Jan 2012, 8:00 am by Steve Hall
Huntsville lawyer Bill Habern made his unusual request in a three-page letter to Rissie Owens, chairwoman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 6:57 am
Majority voteIt doesn't take much to require the sweeping restrictions of Condition X - just a majority vote of a three-person panel from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 1:57 pm
Briseno are urging people to learn about his case and sign an online petition calling upon the Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend clemency to Governor Rick Perry.Mr. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 8:28 am by Ken
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]
16 Feb 2012, 6:56 pm by Jeralyn
The Oklahoma Board of Pardons and Paroles has agreed to early consideration of her parole, possibly in April. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 5:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Ruckman who writes the blog Pardon Power got in a good one: "In Texas, the Board of Pardons and Paroles would seem to give the governor a kind of political cover, since he can’t grant a pardon without their recommendation. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 3:54 pm
The Innocence Project sent a letter today calling on the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute Troy Davis' death sentence to life due to serious questions about his guilt. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 8:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Rick Perry rejected two thirds of positive recommendations he received from his appointees on the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [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 Sep 2009, 8:06 am
Why are the members of the Nebraska Pardons Board having to take countless pardon applications for minor crimes? [read post]
22 May 2008, 2:43 pm
The order of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles can be found here. [read post]
23 May 2008, 7:46 am
The board voted to commute the sentence to life without parole," the parole board said. [read post]
23 May 2008, 9:30 am
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution online: "In just the third time out of 24 requests since 1995, the Georgia Pardons and Parole Board on Thursday commuted a death sentence, just hours before the convicted killer was to be executed by lethal... [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 10:52 am
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles has suspended the hearing that was scheduled for this Thursday, August 9th. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 11:13 am by Kent Scheidegger
The Troy Davis controversy continues, as the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency.The most important document in this case is the opinion of the US District Court following the transfer from the Supreme Court and the evidentiary hearing. [read post]
Eleven times we prayed for Troy Davis, his family, the family of Officer Marc MacPhail, and, most of all, the members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 4:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
After being assured by the feds that paroled inmates with deportation orders would actually be sent to their home countries and not end up supervised on parole, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles may soon begin paroling immigrants in Texas prisons with deportation orders - both legal and illegal, violent and nonviolent - to free up prison bed space under a new law passed this year. [read post]