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14 Sep 2007, 7:28 am
Rick Perry commuted Kenneth Foster's death sentence to life in prison on the rare recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 2:55 pm
Lawyers for the death row inmate, trying to spare their client that fate, are asking the Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend commuting Wood's sentence to life in prison. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 10:15 pm
The court's decision upheld the banishment sentence while Terry is on probation, but said only the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles can set conditions for parole.Defense attorney McNeill Stokes said the banishment kept Terry in prison longer because he couldn't complete a work-release program in another county. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 12:20 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Statesman has more.AND MORE: Here are the proposed cuts (pdf) suggested at the Juvenile Probation Commission.NUTHER UPDATE: I'll have a more complete analysis later, but here are the TDCJ budget items that stood out upon initial perusal of their proposed reductions (most of which they've suggested be waived):Firing 2,037 security staffSlash operational funds for food and fuel, assuming non constat that market prices won't fluctuateSlashing $42 million from mental health careReduce… [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 8:17 am by Steve Hall
"It was painfully apparent that many FSC members believe that flawed science was used in the Willingham conviction, but the FSC does not seem interested in looking at the bigger picture: 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… [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 9:06 am by Steve Hall
In response, Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed told Reuters that “the governor would have to receive a favorable recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider the clemency requested. [read post]
8 Apr 2022, 9:52 am by Alicia Maule
Moody, sent the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 7:56 am by Steve Hall
But Buck, scheduled to be executed Sept. 15 for the July 1995 murders of his ex-girlfriend Debra Gardner and her friend Kenneth Butler, never got a new punishment hearing in what his lawyers contend was an oversight.Now, Buck's Texas Defender Service Lawyers are asking the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend that Gov. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 7:25 am by Steve Hall
" Attorneys for Humberto Leal Garcia today filed a clemency petition with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Rick Perry, requesting a stay of his July 7 execution date. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 8:51 am by Steve Hall
  Additional reprieves or longer reprieves can only be granted upon a positive recommendation by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 1:30 pm by Donna Eng
” (7) If the Parole Board denies restoration of rights “without a hearing,” you may reapply for restoration “with a hearing. [read post]
The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole and Texas Governor Rick Perry should stay all pending executions, including tomorrow’s scheduled execution of Cleve Foster, until the Texas legislature enacts measures that provide, at a minimum, the same protections to human beings condemned to die as those provided to a lizard. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 9:21 am by Steve Hall
And: Last week, Buck's appellate attorneys filed a motion for clemency with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which could recommend that Gov. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 9:42 am by Steve Hall
She said the stay was issued so her legal team could have more time to consider a 2005 recommendation by the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to commute his sentence to life. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 12:51 pm by CJLF Staff
  There has only been one other time in the past 20 years that a gap of more than five months between executions in Texas has happened, which was between September 2007 and June 2008.Woman who Killed Newborn has Sentence Commuted:  A Connecticut woman who is serving an 18-year sentence for killing her baby shortly after its birth a decade ago has had her sentence commuted Wednesday by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 10:52 pm
Other federal courts had rejected similar appeals and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles also refused a clemency request for Wright on a 7-0 vote Wednesday. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 7:47 am
In this case, if the Board of Pardons and Paroles doesn’t stay the execution, Thompson will die Thursday â€" and if the state kills him in our name, Texans won’t be one bit safer than they are now. [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 9:27 am by Steve Hall
But after years of being represented by a discredited attorney who ruined any chance for an appeal based on his disabilities, the fate of Bobby Wayne Woods rests with the state Board of Pardons and Paroles which can recommend clemency or a reprieve to Gov. [read post]