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You can help to prevent this injustice: go here to urge Texas Governor Rick Perry and to the board of pardons and parole to intervene before it's too late. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 12:02 pm by Brian Evans
We are down to the wire, but the Board of Pardons and Paroles exists for just such occasions, to prevent injustices when our courts have been unable to do so. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 7:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Board of Pardons and Paroles may not like the court's decision, but at this point they're either dragging their feet or thumbing their nose at the court (depending on which body part you'd like to choose for a metaphor). [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 7:27 am by Steve Hall
Today, Taylor urged the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Gov. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 10:36 am by Laura Moye
 Sign our petition to the Board of Pardons & Paroles urging them to grant clemency! [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 8:59 am by Lovechilde
  The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied a clemency plea once before but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be lobbied heavily to reconsider. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 8:44 am by Steve Hall
He is expected to once again ask the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant him clemency. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 7:56 am by Steve Hall
But Buck, scheduled to be executed Sept. 15 for the July 1995 murders of his ex-girlfriend Debra Gardner and her friend Kenneth Butler, never got a new punishment hearing in what his lawyers contend was an oversight.Now, Buck's Texas Defender Service Lawyers are asking the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend that Gov. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 5:05 pm by Brian Evans
  Before Sept. 21, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles will rule on whether Troy Davis’ sentence should be commuted, or whether the execution should be carried out as scheduled. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 7:36 am by Steve Hall
"This case represents an obvious injustice that must be remedied by prosecutors, the courts or by Governor Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles," said attorney Kate Black. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 9:04 am by Steve Hall
Lucy Nashed, a spokeswoman for the governor, said the governor could grant clemency only when the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles — whose members Mr. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 9:49 am by Chuck Peterson
The remaining 7 years would be served with the opportunity for the board of pardons and parole to consider whether to release the inmate on terms and conditions of parole. [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]
31 Aug 2011, 1:35 pm by Steve Hall
" Today, attorneys for Duane Edward Buck filed a clemency petition with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles urging the Board and Governor Perry to intervene and halt the execution of Mr. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 8:53 am by Susan I. Nelson
The state Board of Pardons and Paroles grilled federal immigration officials at an Austin meeting to make sure the foreign citizens they want to deport — most probably back to Mexico — will actually be sent to their home countries, not turned loose in Texas. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 4:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
After being assured by the feds that paroled inmates with deportation orders would actually be sent to their home countries and not end up supervised on parole, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles may soon begin paroling immigrants in Texas prisons with deportation orders - both legal and illegal, violent and nonviolent - to free up prison bed space under a new law passed this year. [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]
31 Jul 2011, 5:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" The latter sentiment may be technically true, but for example, after this legislative session Texas now has more than 3,000 felonies on the books (the Board of Pardons and Paroles will issue the exact count later this year). [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 2:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Shannon Edmonds' estimates of new crimes seldom match up precisely with the count from the Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP), which after each legislative session counts the new felonies because each offense must be assigned a risk level for purposes of determining parole. [read post]
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to halt Stroman’s execution and commute his sentence to life imprisonment without parole. [read post]