Fourteen Montana prison inmates have filed clemency applications since October, when a new state law gave the governor final say on such requests instead of the state Board of Pardons and Parole.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock promises "careful consideration" of a clemency request from a man who's spent three decades in prison for the 1979 murder of a high school classmate.
Yesterday, September 3, the Law and Justice Interim Committee met and voted to recommend some major changes to Montana’s Parole System.
The special prosecutor in the 1984 murder trial of a Montana prisoner serving a 100-year prison sentence for a killing committed when he was 17 says the case has been exhaustively reviewed and the state parole board should reject a recent plea for clemency.