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3 May 2011, 7:50 am
Last week, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused an appeal from Kerr and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles turned down a clemency request. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 12:15 pm
As doubts about Troy Davis’ guilt continue to remain unresolved by the courts, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles must step in and ensure that, at least, he is not executed. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 12:18 pm
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles should stay the remaining pending executions until the legislature enacts measures that provide the same comprehensive regulations for the taking of human life as those provided to animals. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 8:17 am
Convicted murderer Cleve Foster, facing execution Tuesday for the 2002 slaying of a Sudanese immigrant in Fort Worth, was denied a clemency request today by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 2:59 pm
Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington, case no. 10-945.Texas Board Denies Clemency for Death Row Inmate: The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency today for death row inmate Cleve Foster, 47, who is scheduled for execution tomorrow for the murder of a Sudanese woman at a Fort Worth bar nine years ago. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 2:57 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole and Texas Governor Rick Perry should stay all pending executions, including tomorrow’s scheduled execution of Cleve Foster, until the Texas legislature enacts measures that provide, at a minimum, the same protections to human beings condemned to die as those provided to a lizard. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 1:04 am
Yeakel gave the members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole a month to explain what evidence they relied on in placing the restrictions and threatened to jail the board members if they fail to comply. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 5:31 am
There are seven risk categories to which potential parolees are assigned, and it's the lowest risk parolees who are being released at below-guideline rates, i.e., the lowest-risk offenders are the ones the parole board is holding onto longer than the guidelines suggest, a situation that's been happening as long as I've paid attention to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 7:08 am
(Last session, one of Governor Perry's appointees to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Shanda Perkins, was scuttled on a bipartisan 27-4 vote, with some senators who'd voted for her in committee voting against her on the floor.)I'd like to see Bradley's nomination rejected outright, but even if he stays on the Commission, the Lege should change the law to let commissioners select their own chair. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 8:06 am
Adams’s case presented a unique and powerful opportunity for the Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Perry to show mercy. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 7:13 pm
Adams' family and church community had sought a commutation of the death sentence; a plea rejected by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 7:35 am
Supreme Court in a last-effort to save the former security guard's life.Monday's pledge to take the 42-year-old death row inmate's case to the high court came after state-level efforts to stop today's execution failed.On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously rejected a request that Adams' sentence be commuted to life in prison.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals also dismissed an appeal that argued, in part,… [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 3:08 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously rejected a clemency petition from a convicted killer set to die next week for the shooting death of his 19-month-old son.More than 90 clergy members from around the state had signed a letter to Gov. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 7:11 am
Perry did grant a pardon to Anthony Graves (following a recommendation, of course, from the Board of Pardons and Paroles), I don't see how anyone would have grounds to contest it. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 8:04 am
You can send a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles at: Rissie Owens, Presiding OfficerTexas Board of Pardons and ParolesP. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 7:51 am
You can send a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles at: Rissie Owens, Presiding OfficerTexas Board of Pardons and ParolesP. [read post]
12 Feb 2011, 11:32 am
You can send a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles at: Rissie Owens, Presiding OfficerTexas Board of Pardons and ParolesP. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 2:38 pm
So governors appoint pardons boards and meet with legal counselors, who take the political heat for controversial cases. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 12:05 pm
” The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles can recommend that Texas Governor Rick Perry grant clemency in this case, and commute Timothy Adams’ death sentence to life without parole. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 9:22 am
You can send a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles at: Rissie Owens, Presiding OfficerTexas Board of Pardons and ParolesP. [read post]
