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20 Jul 2007, 8:26 am
Check it out here where Grits tells us the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole has identified 2,324 separate acts which the state Legislature has declared felonies! [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 8:04 am
Most years, an annual announcement during the holiday season of 10-20 lucky winners of the clemency lottery was the most one could hope for.But clemency is one of the core duties of a state executive, in Texas filtered through the governor's appointees at the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
21 Jun 2008, 6:54 am
During this same time period, 31,904 allegations of parole violations were presented by the Department to the Board of Pardons and Paroles (Board) for administrative decisions, which resulted in 10,251 revocations of parole. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 10:43 am
Buck’s lawyers with the Texas Defender Service have filed a clemency petition with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and have asked Gov. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 4:56 pm
The story opens:More than 20 years after Texas limited the responsibilities of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to approving or denying cases not supervising parole officers or parolees a new state report is sparking debate about whether to expand the agency's duties again.Such a change, if approved, would be the biggest shift in Texas' corrections system in decades — and the idea has sparked a turf… [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 5:50 am
In 2007 and 2009 the Texas Lege invested significantly in treatment programs in and out of prison (to avoid even more expensive new prison building), and now that those resources are available the parole board has been releasing those sorts of petty offenders at higher rates.I was citing those stats from memory, but looking at the Board of Pardons and Paroles' annual report (pdf), I was pretty close. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 6:34 am
Rick Perry after the state parole board recommended that the death sentence be commuted to life in prison. [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 9:05 am
Rick Perry to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles in 2004 and served until 2011. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 3:39 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted yesterday, 5-2, to recommend a commutation to the governor.Governor Perry's statement is here. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 10:54 am
It is rare for ex-convicts in Texas to win such legal challenges in state or federal courts. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 2:46 pm
Rick Perry after the state parole board recommended the death sentence be commuted to life in prison.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles made the rare recommendation Wednesday for Robert Lee Thompson, 34, who was not the triggerman in the fatal shooting of a Houston convenience store clerk. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 11:42 am
The state Board of Pardons and Paroles today spared the life of a Taylor County murderer who was facing death by lethal injection this week, granting clemency for the fourth time since 2002. [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 2:32 pm
For whatever reason, probably because my recent Rissie Owens Watch (she's the chair of the state board of pardons and parole, see here, here, and here) I've received quite a few private emails recently asking advice about a relative's particular parole case. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 3:19 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended a pardon in May and Amezquita anxiously awaited the day when Gov. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 7:11 am
Perry did grant a pardon to Anthony Graves (following a recommendation, of course, from the Board of Pardons and Paroles), I don't see how anyone would have grounds to contest it. [read post]
9 Jan 2016, 2:49 pm
Rick Perry rejected two thirds of positive recommendations he received from his appointees on the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 7:26 am
On Tuesday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a request to commute his sentence. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 8:53 am
The state Board of Pardons and Paroles grilled federal immigration officials at an Austin meeting to make sure the foreign citizens they want to deport — most probably back to Mexico — will actually be sent to their home countries, not turned loose in Texas. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 10:44 am
Warren Hill was set to be executed Wednesday in Georgia, but after the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied his petition for clemency [JURIST report] Monday, the Georgia Department of Corrections delayed his execution for several days in order to... [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 11:15 am
Before the execution, a prominent arson scientist notified the Board of Pardon and Parole and the Governor that the critical evidence in the case -- the testimony of the fire investigator - was incorrect and based on bad science. [read post]
