Executive Clemency

Executive Clemency

Introduction

It is a privilege granted by the Governor from Puerto Rico to all people to remove from your Certificate those crimes Criminal History who committed or who wishes to reduce who are serving sentences for crime. Any person confined in any institution Puerto Rico Penal or has been sentenced by a state court. The Parole Board handles and advice the Governor a in granting any form of Executive Clemency (Mississippi, 1848).

Procedures for requesting Executive clemency

Total pardon - the convict is released crime without condition and eliminates their criminal record.

Conditional pardon - is released into convicted of the crime and eliminate their criminal records under certain conditions. Failure to comply can lead them revocation of the privilege.

Minimum switching sentence - in this case, (the) governor (a) gives the reduction the minimum time served for the Parole Board and other Diversion programs come under the jurisdiction the case. This concession does not involve the elimination of criminal record.

Maximum switching judgment - The (la) Governor (a) terminates the sentence and the inmate is released without conditions. In this not removes criminal record.

What is the administrative procedure of Executive Clemencies?

Application is filed Clemency and proceeds to include the same in the Register (System machining) to assign a number and create the record of the request Executive Clemency. This book takes control of the Petition situation where are recorded the dates they are received and documents relate. It sends copies of all documents to Program of Community of the Corrections Administration for a Technical Services perform the Corresponding report. The Board, upon receipt of this report, refers a Hearing Examiner to analyze the thereof. Analyzed all the information the Board on (The) President (a) and four (4) Members Associates) evaluate the case and issue the Governor (a) its recommendation on the request of the Executive Clemency (Winkle, 1993).

Pardons granted in Mississippi

Confusion arose in the U.S. state of Mississippi, where a large collective pardon decided by the outgoing governor is resented locally. This prompted, Wednesday, January 11, 2012, a judge to partially suspend the measure. The figure differs slightly depending on the source, but it is about two hundred. Two hundred prisoners whom the governor of the state of Mississippi, when he leaves office Tuesday, January 10, granted full pardon. The Constitution of this state bordering the great river allows it, unlike other states in the Deep South, such as Louisiana and Georgia, where the governor's hands are less free.

The problem is that among the prisoners who have just been released under this collective pardon, four are murderers duly convicted by local justice, and that their victims are outraged. The Attorney General of the State tries so now, as he says, "repair the damage", finding unconstitutional the secret of the measure, while an announcement should be made ??thirty days in advance. And a judge has just suspended the release in the past twenty-one past recipients.

The outgoing Governor Haley Barbour, who in passing had been tipped to play the Republican nomination for ...