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19 Nov 2009, 2:46 pm
Foster became only the second inmate since Texas resumed carrying out executions in 1982 who won a recommendation from the parole board as his execution loomed.Allan Turner has updated, "Parole board urges Perry to spare Houston killer," at the Houston Chronicle website.Texas' Board of Pardons and Paroles on Wednesday recommended that Gov. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 11:29 am
Please contact Governor Perry and urge him to follow the advice of Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles by commuting Thompson’s sentence to life in prison. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 6:34 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles made the rare recommendation Wednesday for 34-year-old Robert Lee Thompson, who was not the triggerman in the fatal shooting of a Houston convenience store clerk. [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 7:56 pm
The Board of Pardons and Paroles, however, has recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 7:47 am
In this case, if the Board of Pardons and Paroles doesn’t stay the execution, Thompson will die Thursday â€" and if the state kills him in our name, Texans won’t be one bit safer than they are now. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 2:09 pm
11-13-2009 Texas: by Mike Ward Judge repeals jury fine but chides state parole board. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 2:57 am
US District Judge Sam Sparks refused to hold parole board chair Rissie Owens personally liable, as a jury verdict would have him do, for applying sex-offender registration to Texas parolees without even minimalist due process. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 9:00 am
Hurst wrote up a report and faxed it to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, which unanimously turned Willingham down. [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]
9 Nov 2009, 1:16 pm
Members of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole would love to gaze into an inmate's future before releasing him back onto the streets. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 7:58 am
†The report was sent to Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles with Willingham's appeal for clemency. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 12:39 pm
He did not issue a reprieve for any review, and the Board of Pardons and Paroles chose not to hold a hearing and not to recommend any reprieve or commutation. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 8:21 am
A few days before the execution, Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles received a report from independent fire expert Gerald Hurst, which said that there was not “a single item of physical evidence†to suggest arson. [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]
19 Oct 2009, 8:15 am
One controversial Perry appointee to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Shanda Perkins, was rejected by Texas Senators in this year's legislative session, as noted here. [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]
9 Oct 2009, 10:54 am
Jurors also held Board of Pardon and Paroles Chairman Rissie Owens liable for $21,250 in damages and awarded Curtis Ray Graham attorney's fees that are expected to top $100,000. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 6:07 am
10-9-2009 Texas:Attorneys Bill Habern and Richard Gladden won a major victory this week in their battle with the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole for due process for sex offenders. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 10:02 pm
Texas' Board of Pardons and Parole violated the rights of an individual who was required to register as a sex offender as a condition of parole, without so much as a hearing, even though he'd never been convicted of a sex crime, a federal jury found yesterday.Even more surprising, the jury held Parole Board Chair Rissie Owens personally liable, while Judge Sam Sparks fined the state's attorney for prejudicial comments in… [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 6:45 am
Governor Perry (and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles) signed off on Willingham’s execution back in 2004, despite having in hand a report challenging the fire investigations as “junk science,” and the Governor has publicly challenged Beyler’s credibility, referring to him and others who have looked at the case as “supposed experts. [read post]
