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Say Thank You to Governor Perry and Members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles for Granting Clemency to Kenneth Foster, Jr

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You can also take this opportunity to ask Governor Perry to support legislation in the next session of the Legislature to limit the use of the law of parties to prevent it from being used to sentence someone to death, and to enact other reforms, such as an Innocence Commission, a moratorium on executions, and a special commission to study the administration of the death penalty in Texas. All of these reforms and others would prevent innocent people from being convicted and possibly executed.

HUNTSVILLE - Gov. Rick Perry accepted a recommendation from the state parole board and said today he would spare condemned prisoner Kenneth Foster from execution and commute his sentence to life.

Foster had been scheduled to die tonight.

"After carefully considering the facts of this case, along with the recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles, I believe the right and just decision is to commute Foster's sentence from the death penalty to life imprisonment," Perry said in a statement.

"I am concerned about Texas law that allowed capital murder defendants to be tried simultaneously and it is an issue I think the Legislature should examine."

The seven-member parole board had voted 6-1 to recommend the commutation.

Perry did not have to accept the highly unusual recommendation from the board whose members he appoints.

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November 20, 2009

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