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23 Mar 2010, 8:22 pm
In one of the more high profile executions in the last few years, Monday the Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a 60-day reprieve for Hank Skinner to allow time for DNA testing. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 7:36 am
If the state of Texas goes through with the planned July 7 execution of Humberto Leal it will be committing an "irreparable breach of international law," attorney Sandra Babcock argues in a clemency petition filed this week with the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 3:47 pm
The Ed and Rissie Show Not everyone was happy with Governor Perry's new appointment to run the Texas Youth Commission - Ed Owens, whose wife Rissie is the chair of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 6:45 am
AUGUST • North Carolina becomes the 8th state to require electronic recording of interrogations (in homicide cases) • Trial court judge dismisses post-conviction petition for a new trial of Richard LaPointe, a man many believe falsely confessed to the murder of his wife's grandmother in 1987 • Montana Board of Pardons and Paroles… [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 2:55 pm
A clemency request to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, all of whom are Perry appointees, also failed. [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]
4 Aug 2008, 9:27 am
The question of whether to execute convicted killer and Mexican national Jose Medellin has generated many false arguments in recent weeks regarding the rule of law, frequently IMO turning the idea on its head.Barring an unlikely last-minute intervention by the Board of Pardons and Parole and the Governor, Texas will execute Medellin this evening for the double murder of two Houston teenagers. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 11:25 pm
He did not ask the Parole Board to recommend clemency, and they did not. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 7:51 am
After spending 32 years on death row, he has exhausted all his conventional judicial appeals and must rely on a potential clemency recommendation to the governor from the Board of Pardons and Paroles – seven people appointed by Gov. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 11:44 am
Owens, Presiding Officer, Board of Pardons and Paroles, Executive Clemency Section 8610 Shoal Creek Boulevard, Austin, TX 78757 Fax: [read post]
10 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm
” They also petitioned the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for “a 180-day reprieve related to the kidney donation. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 8:00 am
""Powell is someone who contributes much more to life than his execution would contribute to the symbolic goal of retribution 32 years after the murder of Ralph Ablanedo," Burr wrote to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles in hopes of getting Powell's sentence reduced to life in prison.Earlier coverage of the case begins with this post. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 6:21 pm
An email form which appeared on Death Penalty Focus provides a summary:To the Board of Pardons and Paroles and District Attorney Larry Chisolm:I am writing you today to ask you to reconsider the decision to deny clemency for Troy Davis. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 9:03 am
They wrote: "It appears that you are not interested in looking at the 'big picture' component of this complaint: Did the State Fire Marshal commit professional negligence or misconduct if it failed to inform the courts, prosecutors, the Board of Pardons and Parole, and the Governor that flawed arson science may have been used to convict hundreds or thousands of defendants? [read post]
1 Jun 2023, 5:04 am
Six days later, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board deadlocked 2-2, declining to recommend clemency. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 10:48 pm
Monday, she sent a letter to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, to Governor ("I've never struggled with [the possibility of killing innocent folks] at all") Perry, to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, and to Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos.From time to time it is necessary to praise someone who works on the dark side. [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]
11 Aug 2007, 7:32 am
Foster's last recourse is the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and Texas Governor Rick Perry. [read post]
24 May 2012, 7:10 pm
Some criminal justice experts believe life without parole should be reserved for heinous murders, solely as an alternative to the death penalty. [read post]
23 Dec 2021, 10:50 am
Julius Jones’ life saved Supporters of Julius Jones, who has been on death row in Oklahoma since 1999, march to the offices of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Oklahoma City, where they presented a petition with over 6.2 million signatures, calling for Jones’ death sentence to be commuted. [read post]
