11.   A half-hour after that, the Supreme Court order was announced and the parole board called off the meeting.

12.   A member of the North Dakota parole board, McDonald sometimes feels a bit like the fabled Maytag repairman.

13.   A spokeswoman for the New York Board of Paroles said Chambers will not see the parole board again before December.

14.   After the debate Bond told reporters any decisions on releasing inmates were based on recommendations by the state probation and parole board.

15.   Browning said the parole board was accustomed to getting hundreds of letters before an execution, but she said the circumstances of this case were clearly unusual.

16.   Bush, a strong supporter of the death penalty, has generally acceded to the recommendations of his parole board.

17.   But a parole board decided the actual release date, and most federal prisoners became eligible for parole after serving one-third of their sentences.

18.   Bush obviously believes the parole board, which he appoints, does its job diligently and fairly and would never knowingly deny clemency to someone wrongly sentenced to death.

19.   But Beck said the chances that a violent offender like McKenna would be released by the parole board were slim.

20.   But Bush has appointed every member of the parole board that can make that decision.