Prisoners less likely to receive parole when a parole board member absent

When a board member was absent, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board was less likely to approve parole cases, data show.
Tulsa World

State Parole Board seeks stiffer commutation requirements

Pardon and Parole Board Executive Director Tom Bates said the proposed rules would weed out applications with little to no merit, such as a person sentenced to life in prison filing for commutation ...
KUTV

Death row inmate Ralph Menzies' commutation petition denied

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Board of Pardons and Parole denied death row inmate Ralph Menzies' commutation petition. Menzies, convicted of brutally murdering 26-year-old Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is ...
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Marie Scott, 71, incarcerated more than a half-century for murder, has her life sentence commuted by Gov. Josh Shapiro

Marie Scott, 71, who has spent more than half a century in prison for murder after she and her then-boyfriend robbed a gas station store and he killed the cashier, will be eligible for parole after ...
Daily Herald

Utah Board of Pardons and Parole denies death row inmate Ralph Menzies’ plea for clemency

The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole has denied Ralph Menzies’ request for clemency, one of the death row inmate’s final appeals ahead of his execution scheduled for Sept. 5. The announcement came ...