Texas Governor's Unusual Pardon Plan for Protest Killing Conviction.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's announcement to pardon Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder in Austin less than 24 hours earlier, has stunned legal observers. Perry had not yet been sentenced by a judge, nor had his lawyers submitted a pardon application or any kind of appeal paperwork. Abbott's move has thrown the case further into the national spotlight, and the spotlight is also on the Board of Pardons and Paroles, which previously refused to recommend a posthumous pardon for George Floyd. The decision-making process of the Board of Pardons and Paroles is famously opaque, and Abbott rarely grants a pardon.