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Austin, Texas, USA. Agency executive. David Gutiérrez, Chair and Presiding Officer. Website. Official website. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) [1] is a state agency that makes parole and clemency decisions for inmates in Texas prisons. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The BPP was created by constitutional amendment in 1935.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Texas for murder, and participation in a felony resulting in death if committed by an individual who has attained or is over the age of 18. In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the world to carry out an execution by lethal injection, when it executed Charles Brooks Jr.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails, and private correctional facilities, funding and certain oversight of community supervision, and supervision of offenders released from prison on ...
September 18, 2024 at 2:54 AM. A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers on Tuesday called on Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, and the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop the execution of a ...
A jury convicted Daniel Perry of murder last year, but Governor Greg Abbott called his 2020 killing of Garrett Foster a case of self-defense. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a ...
A Texas board on Thursday declined a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under ...
Thomas Bartlett Whitaker (born December 31, 1979) is an American convicted under the Texas law of parties of murdering two family members as a 23-year-old. Whitaker was convicted on December 10, 2003, for the murders of his mother and 19-year-old brother; he was sentenced to death in March 2007. [ 1 ] He spent years on death row at the Polunsky ...
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles sent a letter on Thursday to George Floyd’s lawyer rejecting her application for a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug offense. “The members of the Texas ...