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10 Jul 2007, 9:53 am
Three key state criminal justice agencies' boards - the Texas Board of Criminal Justice (TBCJ), the Public Safety Commission (DPS) and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission - will all meet in Austin later this week. [read post]
10 Jul 2007, 4:53 am
Georgia's Parole Board needs to give this serious consideration and decide whether it is worth even the possibility of killing an innocent man. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 5:19 am
Send an urgent message to the Georgia State Board of Pardons & Paroles urging clemency in this case.Georgia State Board of Pardons & Paroles2 Martin Luther King, Jr. [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 4:05 am
My letter to the Georgia Board of Parole and Pardons, like so many, will fill up many dust bins unread, because of a "procedural bar", a procedure destined to prevent an appeal from being heard in the interest of "closure". [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 11:17 pm
""The Pardons and Paroles Board is in a unique position," Ewart said. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 7:34 pm
" Five of the 18 members of the state parole board voted for clemency for Mr. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 2:16 am
In the wake of Bryan Collier's move from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Parole Division to become deputy director, I found myself wondering more about the Board of Pardons and Parole and the commissioners who make Texas parole decisions. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 1:52 am
The issue is all the more acute since the 22nd Amendment ensured that second-term Presidents would pay no direct political price because they know they don't have to face the voters.By way of comparison, it's worth noting that many states have gone away from the traditional system whereby the Governor in his or her discretion grants clemency, and towards vesting the power to grant clemency in a Pardon & Parole Board. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 1:13 am
The Georgia Supreme Court and 11th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals deferred to the state court and rejected Davis' claims. [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]
4 Jul 2007, 3:49 am
APPEALS TO: State Board of Pardons and Paroles2 Martin Luther King, Jr. [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 10:42 am
Those who want to help save Davis' life - a commutation would still leave him in prison without parole - should write a short note to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles and send it to Amnesty International, 730 Peachtree St., Suite 1060, Atlanta, Ga. 30308. [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… [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 6:24 am
from the diaries of the tennessee dude... we have written extensively about the procedural and justice-centered tragedies in the case of troy davis in georgia...now it's time for you to take 4 minutes out of your busy day, click here, and take this simple action on behalf of troy davis ... the georgia state board of pardons & paroles must hear from you if are reading... [read post]
24 Jun 2007, 6:09 am
Below is a model letter to use to send to the Board of Pardons and Paroles requesting clemency. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 10:07 am
From the Associated Press:OKLAHOMA CITY -- The state parole board refused Tuesday to block theexecution of a death row inmate who is dying of cancer.Jimmy Dale Bland is to be executed June 26 for the Nov. 14, 1996, murder of62-year-old Doyle Windle Rains 11 years ago.He is "on the verge of death" with advanced lung cancer that has spread tohis brain and his hip bone despite radiation and chemotherapy, defense attorneyDavid Autry told the five-member Oklahoma… [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 7:53 am
Assuming he loses, then the only hope he would have of avoiding execution would be a recommendation from the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles for clemency.Over at Amnesty International's blog, Tennessee Dude has blogged today about Troy's case today. [read post]
28 May 2007, 1:48 am
What inmates couldn't know is that Rissie Owens and the Board of Pardons and Parole routinely and arrogantly flout attempts by elected officials to guide their work, which is a big reason we face a prison overcrowding crisis today.As mentioned previously, Rissie Owens' husband is Ed Owens, the current Czar at the Texas Youth Commission, placing an inordinate amount of authority over the state's corrections system in this one household.Testimony… [read post]
27 May 2007, 5:39 am
Owens' elevation to czar status.Owens' wife, Rissie is also a Perry appointee - she chairs the state's Board of Pardons and Parole, which places an inordinate amount of authority over the state's corrections system in the hands of this little known power couple.TYC seems to have fallen off the media radar screen for now, but I hope it continues to receive the level of scrutiny afforded it at the height of session, and that the same… [read post]
21 May 2007, 8:15 am
SB 909 by Whitmire (D-Houston), and carried by Representatives Madden (R-Plano), Kolkhorst (R-Brenham), Flynn (R-Canton), Hochberg (D-Houston), Cook (R-Austin) - relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee and to the functions of the Board of Pardons and Paroles - has been set on the House Calendar for Monday, May 21, 2007! [read post]
