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13 Sep 2011, 11:40 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended against clemency yesterday, leaving Buck's fate in the hands of Governor Rick Perry, who has the power to grant a 30-day reprieve, and District Attorney Pat Lykos, who can seek to withdraw the execution date. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 7:56 am
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]
13 Sep 2011, 11:40 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended against clemency yesterday, leaving Buck's fate in the hands of Governor Rick Perry, who has the power to grant a 30-day reprieve, and District Attorney Pat Lykos, who can seek to withdraw the execution date. [read post]
14 Apr 2007, 1:00 am
Rick Perry appointed then-TDCJ #2 man Ed Owens, whose wife is chair of the Board of Pardons and Parole, to run the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 8:25 am
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]
1 Jul 2008, 3:16 am
"Terry was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 10 more years on probation after he violated a restraining order by sneaking into his estranged wife's home, then forced her into his car and threatened her with scissors.During his sentencing, a judge added a condition that he be banned from all of Georgia except Toombs County when he was released on probation or parole.The court's decision upheld the banishment sentence while Terry is on probation, but said only the Georgia… [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 2:35 pm
You can help to prevent this injustice: go here to urge Texas Governor Rick Perry and to the board of pardons and parole to intervene before it's too late. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 11:37 am
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]
7 Sep 2016, 12:51 pm
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]
6 Aug 2008, 3:32 pm
On Monday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted 7-0 not to recommend that Perry delay Medellin's execution or commute his sentence.In the Houston Chronicle, "Medellin executed for rape, murder of Houston teens," is written by Allan Turner and Rosanna Ruiz.At issue in Medellin's last-minute appeal was his assertion that authorities refused his right to contact the Mexican Consulate after his arrest. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 8:33 am
What's more, the Board of Pardons and Parole hasn't really been using the Mineral Wells facility the way it was intended, so there's no special reason to keep it opened compared to, say, Intermediate Sanctions Facilities on the list.Equally interesting to me is the fact that the Dawson State Jail's contract with Corrections Corporation of America is up for renewal next January. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 9:07 am
Local prosecutors make the decision to seek the death penalty, and clemency is only allowed if the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends it. [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]
22 Oct 2010, 9:31 am
On Tuesday the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected his plea to commute his sentence to life in prison. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 8:51 am
Additional reprieves or longer reprieves can only be granted upon a positive recommendation by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 1:36 pm
The parole board always pressed him to confess, and when Chatman refused fabricate a story of his crime, the board refused to let him out. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 8:01 am
Pat Rodgers, spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Antonio, said the allegation would be investigated.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles will review the petition and make a recommendation to Gov. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 7:25 am
" 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 Aug 2007, 11:09 am
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 5:27 am
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
