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5 Oct 2014, 5:00 pm
The group also advocated for a review of the pardons and parole board to give more inmates the opportunity for release. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 12:06 pm by Steve Hall
The Parole Board will then write a report for the Pardons Board and make a nonbinding recommendation. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 7:26 am by Lovechilde
  On Tuesday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a request to commute his sentence. [read post]
30 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”Edwards’s statement was a significant development in the ongoing struggle to end the death penalty in this country even though, unlike Texas, Oklahoma, or other states in the region, Louisiana has not executed anyone in more than a decade.His words prompted 51 of the 57 people on his state’s death row to act in unison and file clemency petitions with the Board of Pardons and Committee on Paroles on June 13. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 9:28 am by Steve Hall
Rissie Owens, chairwoman of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and a member of the Huntsville school board, declined an interview for this story and did not answer written questions about calls for reform. [read post]
On November 1, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended that the Governor grant Jones clemency. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 12:54 pm by Matt Murphy
  The United States Supreme Court, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Texas Gov. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 6:15 pm by Record Clearing
I applied for and received a full state pardon from the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles in January 2007. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 6:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
He's outlived most or all his immediate family.His parole was approved in April, with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles considering his recent history of good behavior, his age and declining health. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 2:38 pm by Jeff Gamso
So governors appoint pardons boards and meet with legal counselors, who take the political heat for controversial cases. [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 6:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
On Thursday at 9 a.m., Senate Finance will consider the budgets of Department of Public Safety, TDCJ, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the new Juvenile Justice Department, TABC, TCLEOSE, and will discuss a "Special Provision Relating to Public Safety and Criminal Justice Agencies." [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 7:22 am by Marcia Shein
The Defendant’s Execution Later, in June of 2018, after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected the defendant’s clemency petition, the man was sent to the death chamber and executed by a fatal dose of compounded pentobarbital. [read post]
26 Jun 2012, 8:09 am by Steve Hall
Twenty-eight states currently allow mandatory life without parole for juveniles and will now have to change their laws to accommodate the rulings. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 5:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For instance, Virginia in 2012 granted geriatric release to less than 1 percent of about 800 prisoners eligible, according to the state parole board. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 12:35 pm by Steve Hall
My decision about clemency was based upon the recommendation of the Parole Board in more than 90 percent of the cases. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 7:46 am by Steven Eversole
The group also advocated for a review of the pardons and parole board to give more inmates the opportunity for release. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 12:19 pm
And, on Huckabee's explanations: Instead of saying, "Yes, I believed Dumond should have been paroled, his sentence was too long, there were doubts about his guilt and I made my thoughts known to the parole board," Huckabee is all over the map, saying he didn't know a lot about the case; he denied clemency and didn't pressure the parole board; it's former Lt. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 7:21 pm by Jeff Gamso
First to Georgia where the Board of Pardons and Paroles said it reviewed the record and the pleas from lawyers and 21 witnesses. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 5:03 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
They include: Merger of separate pardon and parole boards (House Bill 518): Two members will be added to the five-member pardon board, and the seven-person panel, sitting as a "parole committee," will decide whether to release eligible prisoners on parole. [read post]