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16 Sep 2011, 11:24 am by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
" Thank you to everyone who took action and sent a message to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 3:31 pm by Alicia Maule
On the same day that 16 Texas senators wrote a bipartisan letter urging Governor Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop Reed’s execution, the Polk County Republican Party wrote a letter calling on Bastrop County District Attorney Bryan Goertz to “cancel the November 20 execution date, test all the evidence, and initiate a new trial. [read post]
12 Feb 2011, 11:32 am by Steve Hall
  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]
1 Jun 2012, 5:26 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Even if she did, though, her actual-innocence claims are strong enough that the Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 10:18 am by Alicia Maule
Contact Governor Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles now. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 1:28 pm
  But the Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected Nenno's clemency petition, as noted in this earlier post.The prediction answered in 1996 got it wrong. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 9:09 am by Jeff Gamso
  It doesn't make for good press.Good enough for the Board of Pardons and Paroles, though, it seems. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 12:08 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Representatives from the Board of Pardons and Paroles participate in the conference to address issues relating to the parole approval process. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 9:26 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles last week rejected a request from his lawyers that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 3:28 am
However, with staffing problems unresolved, the system really must pin its hopes on increasing parole rates for low-level, non-violent offenders, which under current Board of Pardons and Parole Chair Rissie Owens have reached all-time lows. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 11:54 am
Owens, No. 09-50047 In an action claiming that officials from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice committed procedural due process violations after the Board of Pardons and Paroles imposed sex offender special conditions on plaintiff's parole, summary judgment for plaintiff is reversed where, because plaintiff was indeed a sex offender, he failed to show that he had a… [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 8:06 am by Steve Hall
Adams’s case presented a unique and powerful opportunity for the Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Perry to show mercy. [read post]
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]
15 Nov 2011, 12:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
 Presently, the Sunset Advisory Commission has begun its review of TDCJ and other criminal justice-related agencies, including the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 1:21 pm by Alicia Maule
Abbott, sent by Reed’s attorneys with the Innocence Project, also asks the governor to order the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to investigate whether a commutation of Reed’s death sentence should be granted in light of the mounting evidence pointing to his innocence. [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 3:37 am
The applicant informs us that he has requested that the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommend to the Governor that he grant the applicant a 240-day reprieve so that there will be time for the proposed federal legislation to be considered in Congress. (15) Moreover, the Governor himself may grant a 30-day reprieve even absent a recommendation from the Board. (16) It would be an embarrassment and a shame to the people of Texas and the rest of the country… [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 2:02 pm by Jeff Gamso
The way it works in Texas, the Governor can grant clemency only if his hand picked parole board recommends it.This afternoon, the Parole Board said no. [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 3:16 pm
These arguments failed to sway the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, however. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 8:33 am
" And: On a 5-2 vote on Nov. 18, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles made a rare recommendation that the governor commute Thompson’s sentence to life in prison. [read post]