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22 Feb 2011, 7:35 am
Supreme Court in a last-effort to save the former security guard's life.Monday's pledge to take the 42-year-old death row inmate's case to the high court came after state-level efforts to stop today's execution failed.On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously rejected a request that Adams' sentence be commuted to life in prison.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals also dismissed an appeal that argued, in part,… [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 2:02 pm
The Court’s stay came hours after the Texas Pardon and Parole Board had voted unanimously to ask Gov. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 11:09 am
While these factors contribute to a lack of consistency when dealing with probation and parole, the primary obstacle to detailing specific state protocols is that the practice of granting probation and/or parole at the state level is dependent on the discretionary powers of select individuals, such as the prosecutor, the judicial authority, and the parole board, to name just a few. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 2:55 pm
Lawyers for the death row inmate, trying to spare their client that fate, are asking the Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend commuting Wood's sentence to life in prison. [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 9:06 am
In response, Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed told Reuters that “the governor would have to receive a favorable recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider the clemency requested. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 7:27 am
Perry for clemency by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on the grounds of clear mental incapacity. [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]
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]
27 Feb 2014, 9:37 pm
But still.John Schwartz reports in the Times.In recent weeks, as part of an effort to obtain a posthumous exoneration from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
Julius Jones, one of forty-six people now on Oklahoma’s death row, will be considered for clemency by that state’s Pardon and Parole Board next week. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 10:43 pm
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles oversees 365 sex offenders who have been released early and are serving the balance of their sentences on parole. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 8:07 am
Perry's office was inundated with letters from people asking him to grant a 30-day reprieve (the only power he has, absent a recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute or block the execution, which the board declined to make in Skinner's case), and his official Facebook page was overrun with messages imploring him to do the same. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 12:41 pm
Leal are also awaiting a decision on a clemency petition and stay motion from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Rick Perry. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 1:36 pm
The parole board always pressed him to confess, and when Chatman refused fabricate a story of his crime, the board refused to let him out. [read post]
12 Aug 2007, 11:09 am
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 5:27 am
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
8 Feb 2022, 10:55 am
“Withdrawing the execution date so that the District Attorney, the courts, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, and the Governor can undertake a meaningful review of Melissa’s innocence case, the coercive tactics used in her interrogation, and her lifetime of sexual abuse and domestic violence is the common-sense position and imperative as a matter of basic fairness. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 9:26 am
Five out of seven members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles must recommend clemency before Perry will consider it. [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 11:28 am
And if everyone was made to give their DNA, we'd not have innocent people in prison right now.01/04/2008DALLAS -- (AP) Three times during his nearly 27 years in prison, Charles Chatman went before a parole board and refused to admit he was a rapist. [read post]
22 Jan 2024, 7:43 am
Less than a week later, the state’s Pardon and Parole Board turned down Glossip’s request for clemency, which the attorney general – apparently for the first time in the state’s history – had also supported. [read post]
