Holiday clemency questions at gubernatorial transition

On Friday, Michael Hall at Texas Monthly wondered, "Will Rick Perry grant clemency to Max Soffar?" His post brought to mind two broader, related questions.

First, will Rick Perry issue one more round of Christmas-time pardons, as has become his wont, before departing for the presidential campaign trail? (A corollary question, if yes: Will they include significant pardons, like Soffar's, or only trivial ones like in most prior holiday seasons?)  And, second ...

Will Greg Abbott exercise clemency more generously than Perry? Texas' longest serving governor rejected two-thirds of recommendations for clemency sent to him by the Board of Pardons and Paroles, for the most part allowing the constitutional pardon power to atrophy on his watch. He's not the only executive-branch figure to ignore the clemency process: It's something Rick Perry and Barack Obama have in common. Still, to my knowledge, no reporter ever questioned Greg Abbott during the campaign about his stance on executive clemency: Other than his view that governors can issue posthumous pardons, who knows what Abbott thinks about the pardon power?