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5 Nov 2010, 6:15 pm by Record Clearing
I applied for and received a full state pardon from the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles in January 2007. [read post]
13 May 2020, 7:53 am by Skier & Associates
All the while, administrative agencies like the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles make their own rules. [read post]
13 May 2020, 7:53 am by Skier & Associates
All the while, administrative agencies like the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles make their own rules. [read post]
26 Jun 2012, 8:09 am by Steve Hall
Twenty-eight states currently allow mandatory life without parole for juveniles and will now have to change their laws to accommodate the rulings. [read post]
The Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole's posthumous pardon today of the last of the black men wrongly convicted of the rape of two white women 82 years ago in Scottsboro, Alabama seems to write the final chapter of a sorry story that epitomizes the racial injustice and procedural unfairness that dominated the criminal justice system in the United States in the beginning of the last century. [read post]
17 Aug 2008, 1:08 pm
Though an advocate for felon voting rights said the situation has improved since the law went into effect in 1993, the phone still rings off the hook every election year at the pardons and parole board with people asking questions. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 1:00 am by CAFE
Board of Education The Scottsboro Boys case and the ultimate pardon of the wrongfully accused Congress An article from the Asia Society on the history of Asian exclusion acts History of The Klu Klux Klan Act Constitutional Amendments Eighth Amendment Thirteenth Amendment Alabama An article in the New Yorker about Alabama judges’ power to “override” jury rulings and impose the death penalty Articles in Slate about… [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 10:00 am by Kathleen MacRae, ACLU of Delaware
Two days ago, the Delaware Board of Pardons for the first time in its history recommended that the death sentence be commuted. [read post]
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]
19 Aug 2009, 11:12 pm
In Alabama, for example, good-time is not used for determining parole eligibility at all, it only reduces time spent on parole after release. [read post]
16 Aug 2008, 1:30 pm
Michigan and Montana added programs in 2007.Known in some states as medical furlough, humanitarian parole or compassionate release, states with the programs rely on their boards of pardons and paroles to follow up on inmates released for medical reasons, a phone and e-mail survey of states' departments of corrections showed.The driving force behind medical release of inmates is the rising cost of medical treatment for prison… [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 10:57 pm
"And, that's three times the amount someone should be supervising," said Robert Oakes, the assistant director of the state's parole board. [read post]
3 May 2011, 7:50 am by Steve Hall
Last week, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused an appeal from Kerr and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles turned down a clemency request. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 8:24 am
Board of Pardons and Paroles chairwoman Rissie Owens said the board cannot issue a blanket halt on executions. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
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]
27 Sep 2011, 10:22 am by Brian Evans
  The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles should hear from us (fax: 404-651-6670;  email: Clemency_Information@pap.state.ga.us) about this case too, because all executions are wrong. [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]
18 Oct 2007, 7:40 am
The state Supreme Court and pardons and paroles board have so far turned down Alderman's pleas to be spared. [read post]