Greg Abbott released the following statement: Kent Whitaker was instrumental in getting his son's case before the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles which on Wednesday unanimously recommended that Governor Abbott commute Whitaker's sentence from death to life in prison. Baylor's Assistant Vice President for Media Communications Lori Fogleman said Whitaker was a Baylor student from the fall semester of 1998 to the spring of 2001. Thomas "Bart" Whitaker attended Baylor University for several semesters. His father, Kent Whitaker, was also shot but survived. A gunman also shot Whitaker as an attempt to cover up his involvement. He admitted to running a murder-for-hire plot to have them killed in order to collect inheritance money. Whitaker was set to be executed Thursday night for the 2003 murders of his mother and brother in their Sugar Land home. Greg Abbott announced on Thursday that he has commuted the death sentence of Thomas Bartlett Whitaker.
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