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The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board is facing a backlog and could be forced to review as many as 550 parole cases in January after this month’s meeting was canceled when two members resigned. The ...
Former Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board members Ed Konieczny, left, and Calvin Prince talk during a clemency hearing for Richard Glossip in August 2023.
Dwain Thomas has appeared on the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board’s violent offender docket five times since 2010.
In the federal lawsuit, the defendant argues Oklahoma’s parole process for juvenile homicide offenders is unconstitutional ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — High-profile inmate Julius Jones was given another chance to get off death row Monday after maintaining his innocence to the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board. Jones, 41, is ...
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — A bill to change the makeup of the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board for the first time in decades, if ever, advanced at the state capitol on Wednesday. House Bill 3633 ...
A member of the Oklahoma Pardon Parole Board has resigned after an investigation into allegations of “inappropriate activities” while he served as a court program administrator in Pontotoc ...
Trisha Fox was optimistic when her husband, Richard Fox, appeared on the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board docket in early September. The 63-year-old prisoner, incarcerated since 1980 on a first ...
If a Pardon and Parole Board member is uncomfortable with serving as a check on excessive sentences, that person should resign, writes Morgan Hale.
Since executions resumed in October 2021, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board has undergone repeated shakeups. The latest came Thursday when Calvin Prince was appointed to replace Scott Williams ...
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board announced clemency hearings for six death row inmates scheduled to be executed.