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21 Sep 2009, 8:12 am
"The Board of Pardons and Paroles, appointed by the governor, had rejected the appeal his lawyers had filed three days earlier. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 7:34 am
To date, there have been 38 executions in the nation this year; 1,174 since 1977.The Houston Chronicle reports, "Texas man executed for Houston drug dealer's slaying," by Allen Turner on the execution of Stephen Moody.He had directed his attorneys not to pursue an appeal to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 7:41 am
Proceedings lasted only two days, and the jury took just an hour to find him guilty.After many unavailing appeals - the last of them to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles which did not even bother to consider a report by the country's leading fire investigator concluding that in all probability the fire was accidental - Willingham was executed by lethal injection in the infamous prison at Huntsville. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 3:16 pm
Yet after the trial he took the unusual step of asking the Board of Pardons and Paroles to parole Webb. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 7:47 am
Hurst's report was submitted as part of last-minute appeals to the state Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 1:33 am
You may not have the legal authority to unilaterally impose a moratorium, but you can act to create a consensus among judges, district attorneys and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop executions. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 8:45 pm
I doubted their story then but now I have to admit I could have been wrong in light of recent stories that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles have been imposing the so-called condition "X" on prospective parolees for years without factual or legal basis. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 12:16 pm
There are two news articles today involving the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 8:08 am
After several days of listening to attorneys for the State of Texas defend the state parole board's operations, he became exasperated by the testimony of a parole board lawyer. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 11:12 pm
And there's the rub: The current Board of Pardons and Parole has typically failed to follow its own release guidelines and doesn't systematically reward inmates who participate in programming while incarcerated.According to parole attorney Bill Habern, accrued good time in Texas only benefits non-3(g) offenders (those are people who committed more serious violent crimes), and then its chief function is to expedite an inmate's first… [read post]
16 Aug 2009, 2:05 am
Federal District Judge Sam Sparks recently said that the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole may have improperly labeled thousands of people "sex offenders," by requiring them to register upon release from prison even though they hadn't been convicted of a sex crime.It's hard not to conclude upon close examination that our sex-offender statutes are a big mess and the concluding paragraphs to the main Economist article make the case especially… [read post]
12 Aug 2009, 3:13 am
While I was out of town last week, federal District Judge Sam Sparks issued an important ruling criticizing the secretive process by which the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole makes decisions about release conditions for sex offenders. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 2:15 pm
District Judge Sam Sparks of Austin raises some serious concerns about the way the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles conducts business.The board apparently has established a policy that allows corrections officials to classify some parolees as sex offenders although they have not been convicted of a sex crime.The finding does not involve a jury or [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 11:25 am
"Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denies clemency," is the title of the AP brief, via NewsOK.The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has unanimously denied clemency for a 32-year-old man facing execution for killing two men in southern Oklahoma. [read post]
19 May 2009, 12:45 am
I'd seen this article in her hometown paper declaring Shanda Perkins, who the Texas Senate recently rejected by a 27-4 margin for a $95K per year slot on the Board of Pardons and Parole, thought there was still a chance for her nomination to get through this session, but it seemed like piling on to make too much of it. [read post]
15 May 2009, 8:57 am
Rick Perry's nominees to the state Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
13 May 2009, 3:06 pm
Mike Ward reports, "Shanda Perkins nomination busted," on the Austin American-Statesman Postcards blog.In a rare public rebuke, the Texas Senate this afternoon just blocked the controversial nomination of unemployed Burleson banker Shanda Perkins to become a member of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
13 May 2009, 12:34 am
Rick Perry's nominees to serve on the state board of pardons and parole over concerns she is unqualified for the job.The 27-4 vote Wednesday to send the nomination of Shanda Perkins of Burleson back to committee was a resounding bipartisan rejection of the former banker. [read post]
7 May 2009, 10:55 am
Rick Perry's nominees to the state Board of Pardons and Paroles is facing opposition from critics who say she has no criminal justice experience and is best known as a Republican campaigner and crusader against the sale of sex toys in Texas. [read post]
6 May 2009, 4:51 am
I'm not the only one, apparently, dissatisfied with Shanda Perkins' nomination for the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
