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13 Nov 2009, 2:09 pm
11-13-2009 Texas: by Mike Ward Judge repeals jury fine but chides state parole board. [read post]
15 May 2009, 8:57 am
Rick Perry's nominees to the state Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 9:25 am
Following Rick Perry's rejection of clemency for Robert Thompson, recommended by the Board of Pardons and Paroles, Texas conducted its 23nd execution of 2009, last night in Huntsville. [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 10:14 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles requires the majority of prisoners to undergo additional rehabilitation or education programs before their parole release, which can last from three to 18 months, the Tribune noted. [read post]
6 Jul 2021, 10:14 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles requires the majority of prisoners to undergo additional rehabilitation or education programs before their parole release, which can last from three to 18 months, the Tribune noted. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 8:35 am
But it raises the question of whether the Board of Pardons and Paroles is equipped to hold these extra hearings, as well as other new hearings the courts may soon require. [read post]
22 Mar 2022, 9:18 am
Widespread Call for Clemency from Hundreds of Texas Anti-Domestic Violence Groups, Baptists, Evangelicals and Catholics, Latino Organizations, and Exonerees; Five Jurors File Declarations Expressing Support for Relief (Austin, TX — March 22, 2022) Today, attorneys for Melissa Lucio submitted an application for clemency to Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas 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]
17 Jan 2020, 8:56 am
”Now that the Court of Criminal Appeals has once again shown its colors, the 80-year-old Bryan's only hope of relief is the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
27 Aug 2005, 4:43 am
They have filed a request for clemency with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles [official website] and have asked a [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 8:00 am
Huntsville lawyer Bill Habern made his unusual request in a three-page letter to Rissie Owens, chairwoman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
13 May 2009, 3:06 pm
Mike Ward reports, "Shanda Perkins nomination busted," on the Austin American-Statesman Postcards blog.In a rare public rebuke, the Texas Senate this afternoon just blocked the controversial nomination of unemployed Burleson banker Shanda Perkins to become a member of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 11:45 am
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]
13 Nov 2009, 2:57 am
But he called her out for violating parolees' civil rights in just about the harshest terms imaginable and ordered the state to pay six-figure legal fees, reports the Statesman's Mike Ward ("No liability for parole chief," Nov. 13): The Tuesday decision absolves Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Chairwoman Rissie Owens of personal liability in actions against Ray Curtis Graham and still leaves state taxpayers liable… [read post]
15 May 2011, 9:41 am
For the second time this month, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has told the Department of Criminal Justice and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to begin holding a lot more hearings to provide parolees due process, decisions which come with a high financial price-tag that's accounted for in neither the House nor Senate budgets.Earlier, the CCA ruled that the Board of Pardons and Paroles couldn't apply sex-offender… [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 3:08 pm
In an important development, a former assistant district attorney in Harris County, Texas on Friday sent a letter to members of the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles and other state officials — including Gov. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 4:56 am
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]
12 Nov 2008, 6:57 am
Majority voteIt doesn't take much to require the sweeping restrictions of Condition X - just a majority vote of a three-person panel from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 11:25 am
"Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board denies clemency," is the title of the AP brief, via NewsOK.The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has unanimously denied clemency for a 32-year-old man facing execution for killing two men in southern Oklahoma. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 8:43 am
In the current Texas constitution, the governor can pardon, but only after the conviction of the individual to be pardoned and a board of pardons and paroles recommends the pardon. [read post]
