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12 Jul 2007, 4:43 am
President Bush got elected despite charges that he had used his father's connections to avoid service in Vietnam, the place where my client, Carl Johnson, found heroin.In Texas, the governor cannot commute a death row inmate's sentence without approval of the Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 3:52 am
Rick Perry said he'll spare Kenneth Foster from hisscheduled execution Thursday night and commute his sentence to life.In doing so, Perry accepts a recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardonsand Paroles, which voted 6-1 today to urge the commutation.Foster had faced execution Thursday night in Huntsville for being thegetaway driver in the 1996 attempted robbery and murder of Michael LaHood inSan Antonio.Perry didn't have to accept the highly unusual … [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 11:48 am
Also, call the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles at 512-406-5852 or fax 512-467-0945 and tell them to grant Reginald Blanton clemency. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 4:52 am
"We wrote a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles torequest that it consider whether a failure to comply with the ViennaConvention in Mr. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 6:21 am
Leal in a timely manner, he would not now be facing execution for a capital murder he did not commit,” Leal’s attorneys told the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles in a clemency request that was rejected last week, AP reports. [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]
27 May 2007, 5:39 am
Owens' elevation to czar status.Owens' wife, Rissie is also a Perry appointee - she chairs the state's Board of Pardons and Parole, which places an inordinate amount of authority over the state's corrections system in the hands of this little known power couple.TYC seems to have fallen off the media radar screen for now, but I hope it continues to receive the level of scrutiny afforded it at the height of session, and that the same spotlight is shone on… [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 3:40 am
So in Texas, individual offenders might get out years earlier instead of 18 days if the parole board is under pressure at the time to release more people, as they are right now. [read post]
Notable little Fifth Circuit ruling on constitutional requirements for back-end sentencing decisions
15 Dec 2008, 2:35 pm
Hill requires the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to give reasons for denying mandatory supervision that are supported by "some evidence. [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 3:49 pm
Earlier this week, his clemency petition was rejected by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [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]
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]
16 Jul 2020, 4:32 pm
Governor Greg Abbott and the Board of Pardons and Paroles should use their commutation powers to rid the prisons of these short-time inmates as long as the coronavirus rages.The Texas Legislature next year should finally change the law to reduce low-level drug penalties from a felony to a misdemeanor, as Oklahoma, Utah, and several other states have recently done. [read post]
12 Mar 2016, 8:50 am
Though his record so far does not leave one sanguine that this may happen, the Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Abbott should step in to pardon the Kellers for innocence. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 1:51 pm
Unmoved by Hurst's report, the Board of Pardons and Paroles denied a petition to stay the execution. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 2:12 pm
A cornerstone of that process, in Texas and elsewhere, is the Board of Pardons and Paroles, which is designed to act as a safety valve, removed from the emotion of the crime and the courtroom. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 8:39 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recently denied Soffar's petition for clemency. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 8:28 am
A majority of Boston residents support a life sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, if he were convicted in the Boston marathon bombing. 3… The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles posthumously pardoned three of the nine Scottsboro Boys, the only ones who had not already been pardoned or had the charges against them dropped. [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 4:14 pm
The process used by the Department and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (Parole Board) for assessing and placing offenders in programs is not efficient and may result in some offenders remaining in prison longer than they should, which could contribute to prison overcrowding. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 6:12 pm
That reprieve was lifted in October, and this week, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously to reject a clemency request. [read post]
