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The Board is the primary authority in Georgia assigned the power to grant pardons, paroles, and other forms of clemency.Parole is the discretionary decision of the Board to release a certain offender from confinement after the offender has served an appropriate portion of a prison sentence.
The Georgia Department of Community Supervision (DCS) is an executive branch agency of the U.S. state of Georgia. DCS is headquartered in the James H "Sloppy" Floyd Veterans Memorial Building with additional field offices throughout the state. DCS is tasked with: the supervision and reentry services of felony probationers and parolees; the ...
Georgia's parole board has rejected clemency for a condemned man set to die Wednesday night, clearing the way for the state's first execution in more than four years. Lawyers for Willie James Pye ...
Dec. 9—ATLANTA — Georgia Office of Victim Services staff recently completed training to conduct Victim Offender Dialogues. Victim Offender Dialogue (VOD) provides an opportunity for victims of ...
The Court ordered the Georgia Department of Corrections to carry out the execution on a date between January 31, 2012, and February 7, 2012. Former Commissioner Brian Owens has set the date for January 31, 2012 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7:00 p.m. Tate was convicted of the 2001 murder of Chrissie Williams ...
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles has announced that on March 19, it will convene a clemency meeting for 59-year-old Willie James Pye, a condemned inmate facing execution.
Defendants who are intellectually disabled are ineligible for execution. Experts said that Pye meets the criteria, but that the burden of proof in Georgia was too high to reach, his lawyers argued. The Georgia Parole Board rejected those arguments after a closed-door meeting Tuesday and denied Pye's bid for clemency.
May 12—Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles will consider a request to spare the life of convicted murderer and rapist Virgil Delano Presnell Jr. the day before his scheduled execution next week.