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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]
16 Jun 2011, 9:36 am
Perry is awaiting a recommendation from the State Board of Pardons, his office said, though Texas has rarely granted clemency. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 11:23 am
Please sign this petition to Urge the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 8:11 am
“Prompt knowledge of and access to our fellow-citizens held in foreign jails ensures that U.S. consular officers can help them obtain legal assistance, monitor their treatment, and connect them to family and friends back home,” retired military brass and diplomats said in a letter to the Texas parole board. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 12:33 pm
It is room, utilities, and board. [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]
13 Jun 2011, 8:01 am
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles — both in the uncommon position of making a decision with international impact — should commute or postpone the death sentence of Humberto Leal, a Mexican raised in Texas, scheduled to die July 7 for the 1994 murder of Adria Sauceda, 16, in Bexar County. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:27 pm
" (Sign this petition to Urge the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 7:56 am
diplomats, retired military leaders, former judges and prosecutors, and organizations representing Americans abroad called on the Texas Governor and Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant a stay of execution to Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican national on death row who is scheduled to be executed on July 7. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 7:43 am
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to stay his execution and allow him to testify both as a victim and a witness of abuses allegedly perpetrated decades ago by Father Federico Fernandez, who served at St. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 8:01 am
Pat Rodgers, spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Antonio, said the allegation would be investigated.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles will review the petition and make a recommendation to Gov. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 10:06 am
"He never stood a chance," said Northwestern University School of Law professor Sandra Babcock, Leal's current attorney and author of the petition sent to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Tuesday. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 7:36 am
If the state of Texas goes through with the planned July 7 execution of Humberto Leal it will be committing an "irreparable breach of international law," attorney Sandra Babcock argues in a clemency petition filed this week with the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 1:44 pm
A petition filed on Tuesday with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, supported by letters from groups of retired generals, judges and ambassadors, argues that Americans abroad will be put at risk if the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations is not honored. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 7:25 am
" Attorneys for Humberto Leal Garcia today filed a clemency petition with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Rick Perry, requesting a stay of his July 7 execution date. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 5:01 am
A clemency request has been filed with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for Humberto Leal Garcia by the Mexican National Human Rights Commission. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 1:27 pm
" A clemency request has been filed with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican sentenced to death in that U.S. state, the National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, said.Texas Gov. [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 May 2011, 1:46 pm
Older prisoners are boosting Texas' healthcare costs as well (it's not like Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is particularly generous toward this category of inmates), but California's overuse of life sentences has swelled the ranks of their prison geriatric wards. [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]
