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Alabama parole board denies dozens of applications, grants a handful of pardons and paroles with conditions
Summary
At an open meeting Dec. 2 in Montgomery, the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles reviewed a 44-case daily docket. The board denied parole in many cases (often setting reset review dates) and granted several pardons, restorations of voting rights and paroles—some with post-release conditions, including halfway-house placement and GPS monitoring.
The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles met Dec. 2 in Montgomery and considered a 44-case docket that produced a mix of denials, parole grants with conditions, and a small number of pardons and voting-rights restorations.
Chair Hal Nash called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. and the board approved the Nov. 20, 2025 minutes by majority vote, according to the meeting record. The board then moved through its daily docket, hearing family members, attorneys, victims and victim-advocacy representatives before issuing decisions recorded in the minutes.
On high-profile cases the board denied parole to James Stimpson (AIS# 282248) after testimony both for and against release; the minutes list speakers for release including his son, James Stimpson Jr., and a family friend, and opponents including victim Loretta Rutledge, her husband Randy Rutledge, Ky'Toria Lawson of VOCAL and India Eaves, a victim services officer with the Attorney General's Office. The board denied parole and set a reset review date of Dec. 2030.
The board also denied medical parole for James Johnson (AIS# 289253) and denied parole to a number of other applicants, frequently setting multi-year reset dates when denial was recorded. Several denials in the docket were recorded “without reset date” in the minutes.
The minutes show the board granted a small number of full pardons and restorations of civil and political rights: Stephanie Hardrick (full pardon, restoration of rights), Aubrey Johnson (full pardon, restoration of rights) and James Redd (full pardon, restoration of rights). The board also granted a pardon to Christopher Brannon that the minutes note carries specific restrictions (relief from the habitual-offender act and from firearms disabilities).
In several parole grants the board attached detailed post-release conditions. Donna Roberts (AIS# 304760) and a handful of others were granted parole subject to requirements the minutes list as completion of NA/AA programming, placement in an approved halfway house, mental-health follow-up, GPS ankle monitoring and a drug assessment upon release. The board separately recorded several actions that restored voting rights only to certain individuals.
Victim advocates and family members appeared repeatedly in opposition or support across the docket; Ky'Toria Lawson (VOCAL) and India Eaves (Victim Services Officer, Attorney General's Office) are recorded multiple times among those who spoke against release on behalf of victims. Attorneys and relatives spoke in support in other cases.
The board also reviewed a handout list of delinquent parolee files. The meeting adjourned at 2:50 p.m.; the board scheduled its next meeting for Dec. 3, 2025, at 8 a.m. at the same Montgomery address.
What to know next: the minutes record the board’s formal votes, reset dates and any conditions attached to granted paroles and pardons. The meeting packet and the docket list published with the minutes provide the full list of AIS numbers and the board’s recorded outcomes for each case.
