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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. It determines which prisoners are to be released on parole or discretionary mandatory ...
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 ...
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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has begun its governor-directed review into whether it will recommend clemency for Daniel Perry for killing a Black Lives Matter protester in a case that ...
Gonzales, 41, had asked the Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend clemency, which would allow GOP Gov. Greg Abbott to commute the inmate’s sentence to a lesser punishment, like life in ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide ...
Abbott directed the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider a pardon for Perry on an expedited basis; he said, "I look forward to approving the Board’s pardon recommendation as soon as it hits my desk." [27] Under the Texas Constitution, the governor does not have the sole delegated authority to pardon. The governor may only issue a ...
2 (including self) [b] Date apprehended. September 25, 2005. 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 ...