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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]
7 Feb 2022, 2:38 pm by Dani Selby
The district attorney, the courts, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, and the Governor must undertake a meaningful review of Melissa’s innocence case — including the coercive tactics used in her interrogation and her lifetime of sexual abuse and domestic violence — before carrying out an irreversible injustice. [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 3:53 pm
The ruling was handed down without a formal vote just after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected Chi's plea for clemency. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 10:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There also is no comprehensive assessment of offender risks and needs, according to the report.It said case management is fragmented and information sharing is limited among the criminal justice agency, the Board of Pardons and Paroles and the Windham School District, which serves the criminal justice system. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 7:34 pm
" Five of the 18 members of the state parole board voted for clemency for Mr. [read post]
22 Nov 2006, 10:14 am
  The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted 5-1 to recommend that Patterson's death sentence be commuted to life in prison in light of his condition. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 9:00 am by Adam Faderewski
Nichols, a solo practitioner in Austin, who began a statewide practice representing clients before the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, is the Charlie Butts Pro Bono Award winner. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 8:16 am
05 April 2007UA 80/07 Death penalty / Legal concernUSA (Texas) James Lee Clark (m), white, aged 38James Clark is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 11 April2007. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 7:45 am by Steve Hall
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]
16 Nov 2019, 11:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 The state’s legislators voted earlier this year to make the reforms retroactive, which led to the Oklahoma Pardons and Parole Board’s unanimous vote this month to commute the sentences and release more than 450 nonviolent offenders serving time for crimes no longer considered felonies. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 10:42 am by Alicia Maule
The District Attorney, the courts, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, and the Governor must undertake a meaningful review of Melissa’s case. [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 12:34 pm
I wanted to highlight a few recent Grits posts for my own easy reference and to make sure they made it onto Grits readers radar screens:County Jail Overcrowding SolutionsGrits best practices to reduce county jail overcrowding: Part TwoConsultant: Midland jail should tackle overincarceration by reducing pretrial detentionRookie Dallas jailers work with no training up to six monthsLawsuit moves forward toward quicker competency restorationPrivate PrisonsAG should investigate possible Geo Group… [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 6:42 am
You can take action by writing Governor Perry, Members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles and Members of the Texas Legislature to Stop the Execution of Kenneth, here. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 11:09 am by Steve Hall
And: The Pardon and Parole Board recommended 4-1 that the governor commute Allen's sentence to life in prison without parole. [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 6:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"They came up with an estimate of 749 different felonies on the books statewide.By contrast, the Board of Pardons and Paroles has an "Offense Severity" list - which they use to assign risk levels to potential parolees - that counts well over 2,500 felonies. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 4:04 am
There have been 32 executions in the USA in2007, 19 of them in Texas. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 7:32 am by Steve Hall
On Wednesday, Buck's lawyers petitioned the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 1:22 pm by Steve Hall
Rick Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles four days before Willingham was executed. [read post]
1 Mar 2014, 3:06 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Webb should be enough to deny any attempt for clemency.In recent weeks, as part of an effort to obtain a posthumous exoneration from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]