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30 May 2012, 5:45 pm
A proposal to merge the Pardon Board with the Parole Board was endorsed by the state Sentencing Commission and is on the verge of passing the Legislature. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 8:55 pm
The Board of Pardons and Committee on Parole voted Thursday to release Fair Wayne Bryant, 63, records show. [read post]
30 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
”Edwards’s statement was a significant development in the ongoing struggle to end the death penalty in this country even though, unlike Texas, Oklahoma, or other states in the region, Louisiana has not executed anyone in more than a decade.His words prompted 51 of the 57 people on his state’s death row to act in unison and file clemency petitions with the Board of Pardons and Committee on Paroles on June 13. [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]
12 Jun 2012, 5:03 pm
They include: Merger of separate pardon and parole boards (House Bill 518): Two members will be added to the five-member pardon board, and the seven-person panel, sitting as a "parole committee," will decide whether to release eligible prisoners on parole. [read post]
12 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm
Last week, a federal district court in Louisiana refused to grant a preliminary injunction in a case brought by death row inmates alleging violations of due process and equal protection after the State Board of Pardons and Paroles decided not to hold hearings on their requests for clemency. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 7:02 am
Also on the agenda: HB 142: Review of Advisory Councils and Reports, including testimony from State Court Administrator Beth McLaughlin, as to which advisory councils/reports should be retained and which should be eliminated Public Defender System SJR 29: Restorative Justice Agency oversight, including the Board of Pardons and Parole & Department of Corrections Update on Legislative Finance Committee performance measures The December 16 meeting will focus… [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 12:16 pm
There are two news articles today involving the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
24 May 2012, 7:10 pm
Louisiana leads the nation in the percentage of its citizens serving life without parole, fueling the state’s world-leading incarceration rate. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 11:00 am
Finally, governors should appoint reformers to state parole or release boards, like Ohio Governor DeWine and Oklahoma Governor Stitt. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 8:28 am
A majority of Boston residents support a life sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, if he were convicted in the Boston marathon bombing. 3… The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles posthumously pardoned three of the nine Scottsboro Boys, the only ones who had not already been pardoned or had the charges against them dropped. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 2:07 pm
Shannon Edmonds' estimates of new crimes seldom match up precisely with the count from the Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP), which after each legislative session counts the new felonies because each offense must be assigned a risk level for purposes of determining parole. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 7:33 am
Louisiana approved Amendment 1, which will have prohibit a convicted felon from seeking or holding public office or appointment within five years of completion of his or her sentence unless he or she is pardoned. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm
People seeking a commutation or a pardon first must petition the Parole Board, which, in this capacity, sits as the Advisory Board of Pardons.The Board reviews those petitions and determines whether a petition warrants a hearing. [read post]
19 May 2016, 4:50 am
And the number of inmates whose cases are reviewed and the outcomes can be determined from Board of Pardons and Parole reporting. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 9:26 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles last week rejected a request from his lawyers that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison. [read post]
8 Jan 2008, 6:45 am
AUGUST • North Carolina becomes the 8th state to require electronic recording of interrogations (in homicide cases) • Trial court judge dismisses post-conviction petition for a new trial of Richard LaPointe, a man many believe falsely confessed to the murder of his wife's grandmother in 1987 • Montana Board of Pardons and… [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 3:33 pm
Buck’s lawyers have asked for a new sentencing hearing, citing racially-biased testimony in his original sentencing.The state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected Buck’s request for a stay of execution earlier this week. [read post]
23 Dec 2021, 10:50 am
Julius Jones’ life saved Supporters of Julius Jones, who has been on death row in Oklahoma since 1999, march to the offices of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Oklahoma City, where they presented a petition with over 6.2 million signatures, calling for Jones’ death sentence to be commuted. [read post]
8 Dec 2023, 3:00 am
Trump Pardoned Them. [read post]
