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25 Aug 2011, 4:56 am
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]
23 Aug 2011, 9:07 am
Local prosecutors make the decision to seek the death penalty, and clemency is only allowed if the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends it. [read post]
31 Jul 2011, 5:34 am
" The latter sentiment may be technically true, but for example, after this legislative session Texas now has more than 3,000 felonies on the books (the Board of Pardons and Paroles will issue the exact count later this year). [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 2:07 pm
Shannon Edmonds' estimates of new crimes seldom match up precisely with the count from the Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP), which after each legislative session counts the new felonies because each offense must be assigned a risk level for purposes of determining parole. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 11:45 am
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to halt Stroman’s execution and commute his sentence to life imprisonment without parole. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 8:16 am
Stroman's supporters are urging the governor and the state Board of Pardons and Parole to grant clemency. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 1:14 pm
Now, barring a pardon from the governor or future clemency from the parole board, Mr. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 8:33 am
Rick Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to reduce Stroman's death sentence — handed down by a Dallas County judge for the shooting death of Mesquite store clerk Vasudev Patel - to life without parole.He says he learned the healing power of forgiveness from his parents, and his faith. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 5:41 am
(See his website, including a petition to the Board of Pardons and Paroles.)Texas created its victim-offender mediation program as an homage to restorative justice principles, but normally - because usually the victim is dead - death-row offenders don't participate in the program. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 10:16 am
The Governor’s Office says it has not received the lawsuit and would need a favorable recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant clemency. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 9:14 am
Despite the pleas, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday rejected Leal’s request for a delay. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 8:25 am
And: The Texas board of pardons and paroles on Tuesday denied Garcia's request for a reprieve or commutationof his sentence, leaving any final decision on his fate to either the Supreme Court or Rick Perry, the Texas governor. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 8:16 am
The state's Board of Pardons and Parole ruled that Leal did not deserve to have his death sentence commuted to life in prison without parole. [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]
7 Jul 2011, 6:21 am
Leal in a timely manner, he would not now be facing execution for a capital murder he did not commit,” Leal’s attorneys told the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles in a clemency request that was rejected last week, AP reports. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 2:09 am
The Board of Pardons and Paroles has not recommended a stay in this case. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 12:41 pm
Leal are also awaiting a decision on a clemency petition and stay motion from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Rick Perry. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 8:29 am
From the Texas Register:Emergency Board of Pardons and Paroles rules related to sex offender conditions have been published. [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]
17 Jun 2011, 9:06 am
In response, Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed told Reuters that “the governor would have to receive a favorable recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider the clemency requested. [read post]
