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16 Nov 2019, 11:09 am
The state’s legislators voted earlier this year to make the reforms retroactive, which led to the Oklahoma Pardons and Parole Board’s unanimous vote this month to commute the sentences and release more than 450 nonviolent offenders serving time for crimes no longer considered felonies. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 2:35 pm
This news came just hours after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended a reprieve of Rodney’s execution. [read post]
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Unanimously Votes for 120-Day Reprieve of Rodney Reed’s Execution
15 Nov 2019, 1:18 pm
Today, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously voted in favor of a 120-day reprieve of Rodney Reed’s execution. [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 10:18 am
Contact Governor Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles now. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 3:31 pm
On the same day that 16 Texas senators wrote a bipartisan letter urging Governor Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop Reed’s execution, the Polk County Republican Party wrote a letter calling on Bastrop County District Attorney Bryan Goertz to “cancel the November 20 execution date, test all the evidence, and initiate a new trial. [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 12:51 pm
Reed is scheduled for execution on November 20, despite evidence of innocence (Austin, Texas – November 8, 2019) – Eight Republican and eight Democratic Texas senators signed a letter urging Governor Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant a reprieve to Rodney Reed, who is scheduled for execution on November 20. [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 11:09 am
Greg Abbott and the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 8:10 am
Yesterday, 26 bi-partisan Texas lawmakers sent a letter to Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles requesting to stop the November 20 execution of Rodney Reed in order to further investigate the mounting evidence of his innocence. [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 7:33 am
Here’s a basic overview of the process: The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) creates its particular risk assessment by relying on two primary groups of personal data: Continue reading [read post]
30 Oct 2019, 3:05 pm
With the state’s entire case disproven and a new witness to Fennell’s confession, Texas is on the verge of executing an innocent man (Bastrop, TX – October 30, 2019) Today, the legal team for Rodney Reed, who is set to be executed on November 20, 2019, for a crime he did not commit, filed an application for clemency with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 1:21 pm
Abbott, sent by Reed’s attorneys with the Innocence Project, also asks the governor to order the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to investigate whether a commutation of Reed’s death sentence should be granted in light of the mounting evidence pointing to his innocence. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 1:47 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole is administratively distinct from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (and this matters). [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 2:40 pm
He wants prisoners to get credit for "earned time," which in Texas is optional for the parole board to recognize (this provides scant incentive for program participation, cooperation on work details, etc.). [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 4:40 pm
That function is held by the Board of Pardon and Paroles, and the votes take place at their field offices. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 7:45 am
Like Patel’s, Bhuiyan’s pleas were ignored by the Board of Pardons and Paroles and then-Gov. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 7:22 am
The Defendant’s Execution Later, in June of 2018, after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected the defendant’s clemency petition, the man was sent to the death chamber and executed by a fatal dose of compounded pentobarbital. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 9:00 am
Nichols, a solo practitioner in Austin, who began a statewide practice representing clients before the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, is the Charlie Butts Pro Bono Award winner. [read post]
20 Jun 2018, 6:55 am
"They came up with an estimate of 749 different felonies on the books statewide.By contrast, the Board of Pardons and Paroles has an "Offense Severity" list - which they use to assign risk levels to potential parolees - that counts well over 2,500 felonies. [read post]
5 Mar 2018, 11:51 am
The Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that Bart’s death sentence be commuted to life in prison. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 8:31 am
Texas Governor Spares The Life of Death Row Inmate Thomas Whitaker It’s extremely rare for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend a lesser sentence for a death row inmate facing execution but it happened this month. [read post]
