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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]
9 Feb 2011, 7:17 am
" The clemency petition, filed with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, is in Adobe .pdf format. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 7:45 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles decides who gets paroled.The cases returned by both state and federal courts come from trials in the years 1989 to 1991.During that time, jury instructions did not allow jurors to properly consider mitigating evidence before assessing the death penalty, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found in 2005 when it threw out the death sentence of Johnny Paul Penry. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 7:35 am
The clemency petition, filed with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, is in Adobe .pdf format. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 9:10 am
"It is in our deepest hopes and prayers that the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole, and Gov. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 12:22 pm
The report shall include recommendations and strategies to better align parole votes, program start dates, and offender releases.Not later than December 1, 2012, the Board of Pardons and Paroles and the Department of Criminal Justice shall submit to the Legislative Budget Board and the Governor's Office an update to include actions, if any, implemented since the initial report. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 11:20 am
I hadn't realized until seeing the tagline to the article that Humphrey is "currently a Parole Commissioner for the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 8:22 am
Sixteen of the pardons are granted at the recommendation of the Board of Probation and Parole (BOPP). [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 10:55 am
On Christmas Day, Urnosky's relatives issued a statement in which they "vehemently opposed" Foster's request for clemency, which was turned down Friday by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 7:20 pm
See recent Grits posts on clemecy:Perry granted 3.5% of clemency requestsInstitutional prosecutorial bias limits federal pardon recommendations from DOJPerry mostly ignores advice of parole board appointees on clemencyChristmastime clemency is a joke, but pardons could be meaningful remedy for 'government overreach' How the Grinch stole clemency: Christmastime pardons trivialize process [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 10:30 am
See related Grits posts:Institutional prosecutorial bias limits federal pardon recommendations from DOJPerry mostly ignores advice of parole board appointees on clemencyChristmastime clemency is a joke, but pardons could be meaningful remedy for 'government overreach' How the Grinch stole clemency: Christmastime pardons trivialize processCasting light on Texas clemency decisionsPublic tired of Willie Horton? [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 6:04 am
Reading about these institutional dynamics made me consider the position of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles as a de facto, semi-autonomous appendage of the Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 5:46 am
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]
21 Dec 2010, 9:24 am
The state's attorney general's office, representing Perry, said the memo was protected under attorney-client privilege, and that the supporting documents from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles were confidential under the law. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 8:31 am
"I'm not holding my breath for Governor Perry to begin to make clemency a more meaningful remedy for "government overreach," but there's a strong case to be made that he can and should treat the pardon power as more than just a token Christmastime genuflection to values of mercy and forgiveness, which are then ignored in practice throughout the rest of the year.RELATED: How the Grinch stole clemency: Christmastime pardons trivialize processUPDATE: Via… [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 1:45 pm
Similarly, when Cameron Todd Willingham was executed, the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole and Gov. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 4:44 am
This morning I took a chart published earlier on Grits that was compiled from annual reports from Texas' Board of Pardons and Paroles, updating and extending it back to 2001 to get a fuller picture of Governor Perry's overall clemency record (including pardons, commutations, etc.) since he ascended from Lt. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 4:57 am
Tell me in the comments if you think they'll come in over or under 55 (as counted by the Board of Pardons and Paroles after the session is complete), and why. [read post]
12 Nov 2010, 8:17 am
And gubernatorial clemency - even when stays or pardons are recommended by the Board of Pardons and Paroles - doesn't happen often and fails to provide adequate remedy for false convictions.Since Jones is dead, the only way to benefit from re-vetting the facts of the case will come from whatever steps are taken to ensure similar errors don't recur. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 9:31 am
On Tuesday the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected his plea to commute his sentence to life in prison. [read post]
