Texas Governor Plans Pardon for Man Convicted of Killing Protester in BLM Riot

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced that he plans to pardon Daniel S. Perry, who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in 2020, as long as a state board brings such a request to his desk. The potential pardon threatens to undermine the Travis County District Attorney's office, which prosecuted the case. Perry faces a sentence of life in prison, but a pardon would free him from prison, allow him to vote, and restore his right to serve on a jury.