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9 Dec 2011, 7:02 am
Also on the agenda: HB 142: Review of Advisory Councils and Reports, including testimony from State Court Administrator Beth McLaughlin, as to which advisory councils/reports should be retained and which should be eliminated Public Defender System SJR 29: Restorative Justice Agency oversight, including the Board of Pardons and Parole & Department of Corrections Update on Legislative Finance Committee performance measures The December 16 meeting will focus… [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 9:09 am
It doesn't make for good press.Good enough for the Board of Pardons and Paroles, though, it seems. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 1:30 pm
While the federal government is investigating how the state acquired their drug supply, the Georgia Pardons and Parole Board will have the opportunity to decide whether to commute Davis' sentence. [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 3:18 pm
Young, 43, had been recommended for clemency by the state Pardon and Parole Board. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 10:59 am
A majority of the Ohio Parole Board twice has recommended he show Spirko no mercy. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 10:51 am
He did not return phone calls from CNN seeking comment.Gardner's lawyers have launched an aggressive scramble in state and federal courts, as well as the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, to at least postpone the execution.A federal judge late Tuesday refused to block it, after Gardner claimed the procedures related to a two-day commutation hearing held by the board last week violated his civil rights. [read post]
27 Oct 2012, 6:39 am
(Medication to treat the condition had been left in his hotel room.)As James Woodard's friends and loved ones remember him today, I thought it appropriate to post the text of a letter dated May 22, 2009 to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
3 May 2011, 7:50 am
Last week, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused an appeal from Kerr and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles turned down a clemency request. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 2:12 pm
The referenced section of the state constitution says, "The Governor shall have power to grant after conviction, reprieves or leaves of absence not to exceed sixty (60) days, without the action of the Pardon and Parole Board. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 5:45 am
Do I think that's likely after the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended against it? [read post]
19 May 2010, 7:40 pm
Back in March the Pardon and Parole Board recommended clemency for Smith. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 8:24 am
Board of Pardons and Paroles chairwoman Rissie Owens said the board cannot issue a blanket halt on executions. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 12:50 pm
The parole board will recommend whether Gov. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 7:01 am
Lawlor said that's because judges are setting higher bail amounts for burglars, plea deals have substantially increased and the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles has gotten more conservative in doling out parole approvals. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 4:32 pm
Governor Greg Abbott and the Board of Pardons and Paroles should use their commutation powers to rid the prisons of these short-time inmates as long as the coronavirus rages.The Texas Legislature next year should finally change the law to reduce low-level drug penalties from a felony to a misdemeanor, as Oklahoma, Utah, and several other states have recently done. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 8:33 am
My colleague, Rodney Brown and I, recently persuaded the Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend sparing the life of our client, Robert Lee Thompson. [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 12:04 am
I am also directing DFPS, through its parental advisory committee, to develop and recommend statewide procedures to follow when seeking court orders to aid investigations, while protecting the rights of parents and families.No tinkering with parole mechanicsSB 1206 by Hinojosa/Edwards would have authorized TDCJ to release inmates when they'd completed conditions for parole specified by the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
10 Jul 2008, 4:01 pm
"Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board is hardly hell-bent on emptying death row, having recommended clemency for death row inmates only four times since Gov. [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 5:20 am
But Georgia's machinery of death is grinding ahead anyway, despite pleas for mercy from a growing number of voices including Amnesty International and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu....none of these facts can change Davis' sentence, thanks to the federal Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which puts a time limit on when evidence can be admitted in state death penalty cases.Davis didn't have the aggressive legal help needed to round up witnesses in… [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 1:25 pm
If the Board of Pardons and Paroles grants the application, it is sent to the Governor for his review. [read post]
