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2 Dec 2009, 12:50 pm
The parole board will recommend whether Gov. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 7:01 am
Lawlor said that's because judges are setting higher bail amounts for burglars, plea deals have substantially increased and the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles has gotten more conservative in doling out parole approvals. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 7:06 pm
View the article here03/04/2008On the heels of a judge's controversial decision to allow a sex offender to live near Gunstream Elementary School, Frisco joined several neighboring cities in restricting where sex offenders may live.The ordinance, which passed 5-0 at the City Council's meeting Tuesday night, restricts registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of places where children gather, including schools, day care centers, and parks.Sex offenders who are already living… [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 5:20 am
But Georgia's machinery of death is grinding ahead anyway, despite pleas for mercy from a growing number of voices including Amnesty International and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu....none of these facts can change Davis' sentence, thanks to the federal Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which puts a time limit on when evidence can be admitted in state death penalty cases.Davis didn't have the aggressive legal help needed to round up witnesses in time:… [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 5:41 am
(See his website, including a petition to the Board of Pardons and Paroles.)Texas created its victim-offender mediation program as an homage to restorative justice principles, but normally - because usually the victim is dead - death-row offenders don't participate in the program. [read post]
26 May 2012, 5:24 am
The Commission's report - which encompasses the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee - makes various recommendations with which TCJC agrees. [read post]
28 May 2012, 4:56 pm
When a person is convicted of a violent felony and the judge or jury (depending on the case) finds beyond a reasonable doubt that the person is habitual violent offender, the penalties are as follows: • A third-degree or second degree felony is treated as if it were a first-degree felony • A first-degree felony stays the same, except: • The person is not eligible for parole and • The Board of Pardons and Parole has to take into consideration… [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 2:27 pm
The ominous warning from
Margaret Smith, chairwoman of the state Clemency
and Pardons Board, came as the board voted 4-0 to
recommend clemency for Dozier, who has been in
prison since 1994 after becoming one of the state's
first three-strikes felons to be sentenced to life without
parole, reports the Seattle Times. [read post]
8 Apr 2007, 11:06 pm
Clark's defense team has asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Texas Governor Rick Perry to halt the execution because of the likelihood that Clark suffers from mental retardation. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 4:12 pm
Hank Skinner’s fate lies in the hands of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Gov. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 12:59 pm
Presently, the Sunset Advisory Commission has begun its review of TDCJ and other criminal justice-related agencies, including the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 8:13 am
Hammond's attorney Brian Mendelsohn said Thursday he won't be seeking clemency at a Board of Pardons and Paroles hearing scheduled for Friday, and instead will focus on "litigating his case in the courts. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 4:52 am
"We wrote a letter to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles torequest that it consider whether a failure to comply with the ViennaConvention in Mr. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 4:32 pm
Governor Greg Abbott and the Board of Pardons and Paroles should use their commutation powers to rid the prisons of these short-time inmates as long as the coronavirus rages.The Texas Legislature next year should finally change the law to reduce low-level drug penalties from a felony to a misdemeanor, as Oklahoma, Utah, and several other states have recently done. [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 5:50 am
Rissie Owens, ChairTexas Board of Pardons and Paroles8610 Shoal Creek Blvd.Austin, TX 78757Dear Ms. [read post]
1 Sep 2013, 8:13 am
New Jersey State Parole Board, 2013 U.S. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 8:41 pm
Only time will tell whether the Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Perry, whose current term ends in January 2011, will begin to examine the broad range of factors historically considered in executive clemency. [read post]
12 May 2009, 5:31 pm
Brad Henry on Monday denied clemency for a Cleveland County man convicted in the 1995 beating death of an 8-year-old boy whose battered remains were found in an abandoned freezer.The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 last month to recommend Henry commute the death sentence of 48-year-old Donald Lee Gilson to life in prison without parole.But after reviewing the case and interviewing attorneys for both sides, Henry said he decided the case did not merit a… [read post]
12 Jan 2010, 7:15 am
The article notes that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has rejected Johnson's clemency petition. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 12:23 pm
Accusing Alley of failing to fully and properly plead the inmate’s mental disability case in state and federal appeals, Levin is asking the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend a 60-day reprieve so members can judge for themselves whether Woods is mentally competent for execution. [read post]
