Office of the General Counsel execution case files 1946-1994

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Office of the General Counsel execution case files 1946-1994

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Functions of the Texas Governor's Office of the General Counsel includetracking and analyzing the cases of prisoners on death row. Files consist ofexecution summaries by the Governor's General Counsel or Governor's Office (prior to1973) and summaries by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) (or by the TexasDepartment of Criminal Justice for the BPP), memoranda and correspondence, clemencypetitions, affidavits, court documents, notes, records from the Texas Department ofCriminal Justice inmate files, Department of Public Safety criminal history records,clippings, case summaries or similar court reports, citations from legal sources,and death penalty protest letters. Dates covered are 1946-1994. These recordscontain execution case files of the Office of the General Counsel of Texas GovernorsBeauford H. Jester, Allan Shivers, Price Daniel, John Connally, Preston Smith, DolphBriscoe, Bill Clements, Mark White, and Ann Richards created to track the cases ofdeath row inmates and to document actions by the courts, the Board of Pardons andParoles, and the governor through appeals, requests for stays of execution, orclemency.

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