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24 May 2012, 7:10 pm by ebcarpenter
Louisiana leads the nation in the percentage of its citizens serving life without parole, fueling the state’s world-leading incarceration rate. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 8:25 am by Steve Hall
And: The Texas board of pardons and paroles on Tuesday denied Garcia's request for a reprieve or commutationof his sentence, leaving any final decision on his fate to either the Supreme Court or Rick Perry, the Texas governor. [read post]
20 Jul 2007, 7:36 am
- Kenneth Foster # 999232 On Monday, Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles granted an execution reprieve for 38-year-old Troy Davis about 24 hours before the state was set to kill him. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 7:47 am
Hurst's report was submitted as part of last-minute appeals to the state Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
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]
20 May 2010, 7:47 am by Steve Hall
Nevertheless, Powell was again sentenced to die and has since exhausted all of his appeals.Unless Lehmberg should decide to withdraw the execution request or the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends clemency to Gov. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 11:37 am by [email protected]
The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole—a seven-strong panel of gubernatorial appointees—issued a unanimous recommendation to Governor Greg Abbott that he grant a 120-day stay of Reed’s execution. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 11:37 am by [email protected]
The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole—a seven-strong panel of gubernatorial appointees—issued a unanimous recommendation to Governor Greg Abbott that he grant a 120-day stay of Reed’s execution. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 10:15 am by Brian Evans
   Texas state Senator Rodney Ellis suggested to CNN the broader questions the Commission did not ask: When did the State Fire Marshal start using modern arson science and did the State Fire Marshal commit professional negligence or misconduct when it failed to inform the courts, prosecutors, the Board of Pardons and Parole, and the Governor that flawed arson science had been used to convict hundreds of defendants? [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 5:01 am by cdw
A clemency request has been filed with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for Humberto Leal Garcia by the Mexican National Human Rights Commission. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 6:42 am
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is Davis' last hope toprevent the execution, after the U.S. [read post]
16 Aug 2009, 2:05 am
Last year the Fifth Circuit struck down Junell's routine practice of requiring that ex-offenders could live with no one but a spouse or family members.In a similar vein, as discussed earlier this week, such post-conviction restrictions have become an issue in Texas state-level cases, but frequently the strictures the parole board adds the restrictions as a condition of release instead of having them dictated by a judge or jury at sentencing. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 9:25 am
Perry has the option of issuing a 30-day stay; only he and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, acting in concert, can commute Foster's sentence. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 9:26 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles last week rejected a request from his lawyers that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 5:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
However you decide to skin that cat, the state can find large cost reductions by changing how they deal with that category of offenders.Fabelo also suggested taking measures to edge up parole rates toward levels anticipated by the Board of Pardons and Paroles' official guidelines, noting that a 1% increase in the parole rate would reduce the inmate population by 1,500, while a 1% decline would increase the prison population by a like amount.… [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 7:56 am by Steve Hall
diplomats, retired military leaders, former judges and prosecutors, and organizations representing Americans abroad called on the Texas Governor and Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant a stay of execution to Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican national on death row who is scheduled to be executed on July 7. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 12:13 pm by CJLF Staff
Immigration and Customs Enforcement released criminal aliens at its own discretion.GA Executes Man for Triple Slaying:  After the State Board of Pardons and Paroles declined Tuesday to spare the life of a death row inmate, Georgia executed him Wednesday evening. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 12:39 pm by Steve Hall
    Here's an excerpt of his remarks from the conference: Secondly, I have said that if the Pardon and Parole Board recommends to me clemency, and I have granted clemency in some cases, I think "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" with respect to capital cases is too low a standard. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 4:18 am by SHG
But that’s not happening.* The parole board? [read post]