Tag: Q1 1926
Ferguson’s Free Pass: Texas Governor’s Record Clemency Raises Eyebrows
Since her inauguration on January 2, 1926, Texas Governor Miriam A. Ferguson has been on a pardon spree, issuing a whopping 1,110 proclamations, with a staggering 1,315 of those being clemency proclamations. The records, now stored in the secretary of state’s office, reveal a remarkable trend. Out of these, 20 were revocations of conditional pardons,…
