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Perry granted 3.5% of total clemency requests

Just to put a final coda on Grits' recent series regarding gubernatorial clemency under Rick Perry, I got back the results of an open records request to discover a piece of data that was inconsistently (and apparently incorrectly) reported in the last decade of annual reports from the Board of Pardons and Paroles: How many total clemency applications does the agency receive each year? The reports gave clear data about the number of cases considered each year by the board, but not always the larger number of clemency requests including those the board didn't hear.According to the supposedly apples-to-apples numbers sent to me by the Clemency division at the Board of Pardons and Paroles, during Rick Perry's tenure the BPP never received more than 756 requests for clemency (in 2001), with just 574 requests in 2009...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 30, 2010 (boomark / email).