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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.
Texas’ parole board on Monday denied clemency for death row inmate Ramiro Gonzales, who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday for a 2001 murder, despite the fact a key expert witness no longer ...
The division also investigates proposed parole plans from inmates, tracks parole eligible cases, and submits cases to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. The division does not make decisions on whether inmates should be released or whether paroles should be revoked. [114] The TDCJ Parole Division has its central office in Austin. [115]
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 on Tuesday voted 7-0 against commuting Brewer’s death sentence to a lesser penalty. Members also rejected granting a six-month reprieve.
A man on death row in Texas has asked the state to delay his execution so that he can donate a kidney. Ramiro Gonzales, 39, is set to be killed Wednesday after he was convicted for the 2001 murder ...
During the final months leading up to his tentative execution date, Mullis did not appeal to stay his execution or file for clemency to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [44] He additionally stated "It was my decision that put me here." On September 24, 2024, Mullis was executed by lethal injection at Huntsville Unit.
Kenneth Allen McDuff (March 21, 1946 - November 17, 1998) was an American serial killer from Texas. In 1966, McDuff and an accomplice kidnapped and murdered three teenagers who were visiting from California. He was given three death sentences for these crimes but avoided execution after the 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Furman v.