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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]
24 Jul 2010, 10:16 am by Steve Hall
CNN posts, "Texas state board says arson investigators used flawed science. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 6:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
It's mentioned in passing but honored mostly in the breach.Prep reading to participate in TDCJ, parole board Sunset processActivists who work on issues related to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or the Board of Pardons and Paroles will want to at least skim though their"self evaluation reports" here and here (large pdfs), respectively. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 7:50 am
Last year TDCJ recommended that 451 offenders be released because their poor health generated high healthcare costs, but the Board of Pardons and Parole only approved 164 of them. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 7:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
We'll see.See related, recent Grits posts:TDCJ, parole board publish self-evaluations for Sunset processSunset process gives public chance for input at TDCJTidbits from the parole board's self-evaluationHolding Texas judges accountable for past misconductFew cases against judges sustained by Judicial Conduct Commission [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 1:07 pm
The Honduran government on Friday asked the state Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 10:20 am
  Only the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Governor Rick Perry, or the courts can do that. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 10:08 am by Jeff Gamso
Later, at the parole hearing, his lawyers told the Board the same thing. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 12:16 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Instead, the cause of the Cacy fire should have been listed as undetermined.The most damning evidence — a forensic test that found gasoline on her uncle’s clothes — was based on misinterpreted results.With no smoke inhalation or heat damage to [alleged victim Bill] Richardson’s throat and lungs, there is no evidence he was alive at the time of the fire.Instead, it appears that Richardson, a 76-year-old who smoked up to three packs of cigarettes a day, died of a heart… [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 5:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
• With no smoke inhalation or heat damage to Richardson’s throat and lungs, there is no evidence he was alive at the time of the fire.Instead, it appears that Richardson, a 76-year-old who smoked up to three packs of cigarettes a day, died of a heart attack while smoking in bed, Cacy’s lawyers argue, adding that numerous burn marks on the furniture show that Richardson was a careless smoker.Other experts reached similar conclusions in 1998, prompting the Texas… [read post]
22 Nov 2006, 3:07 pm
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]
23 Aug 2011, 9:07 am by CJLF Staff
Local prosecutors make the decision to seek the death penalty, and clemency is only allowed if the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends it. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 2:45 am
Yet the Board of Pardons and Paroles as well as Texas Gov. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:27 pm by Lovechilde
" (Sign this petition to Urge the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 11:45 pm
Medellín has asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for an eight-month reprieve. [read post]
11 Aug 2008, 3:07 pm
  LINKJeffery Lee Wood does not deserve to die.That's the plea made in an application to the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole seeking clemency for the man sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of a Kerrville convenience store clerk, Kriss Keeran. [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 8:43 am by Steve Hall
With the firing squad execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner, the death penalty is getting a great deal of attention in Utah.Earlier this morning, Jennifer Dobner posted, "Clemency decision expected from UT parole board," for AP, via Google News.A Utah parole board will decide Monday whether to grant clemency to a condemned Utah inmate scheduled to be executed by firing squad.The last time Utah granted clemency to a condemned man was in 1962.Convicted killer… [read post]
26 Mar 2022, 4:38 pm by Bryan Graves
And this week, a bipartisan group of nearly 90 members of the state legislature have signed a letter urging the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 4:24 am
Skinner asked the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles, but they said "no. [read post]
20 Jul 2007, 7:36 am
- Kenneth Foster # 999232 On Monday, Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles granted an execution reprieve for 38-year-old Troy Davis about 24 hours before the state was set to kill him. [read post]