A federal judge, citing an AJC investigation into juvenile lifers, found Georgia’s parole system may be so hollow it amounts to a constitutional violation. Janice Buttrum, sentenced to life for a ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A victim of a convicted Augusta child psychologist is speaking out after the Georgia Parole Board reversed its tentative decision to grant parole to Dr. Kenneth McPherson, ...

The Georgia Parole Board is part of the executive branch of Georgia’s government, and is constitutionally authorized to grant paroles, pardons, reprieves, remissions and commutations to those ...

Georgia parole board pauses scheduled execution without explanation Lawyers challenge conflicts involving two parole board members Death warrant expires Dec. 24 unless a new one is issued JACKSON ...

After more than two months of deliberation, a Fulton County judge has ruled the state parole board is eligible to hear a Cobb death row inmate’s plea for clemency without all five parole board members ...

Humphreys, 52, was scheduled for execution on Dec. 17, but the lethal injection was paused just days beforehand. He was convicted of malice murder and other charges in the 2003 shooting deaths of ...

A Georgia judge on Monday temporarily halted a December execution that had already been put on hold, citing that questions about the state’s clemency process must be addressed before Stacey Humphreys’ ...