Jeff Wood - stayed

Federal judge delays execution of condemned inmate

A federal judge has granted a request to delay the execution of condemned inmate Jeffery Wood.

Jeffery Wood had been set to be executed Thursday for taking part in a fatal 1996 convenience store robbery in the Texas Hill Country.

But a federal judge on Thursday granted a request by Wood's attorneys to delay his execution so they could hire a mental health expert to pursue their arguments that he is incompetent to be executed.

Wood would have been the 9th condemned prisoner put to death this year and the fifth this month in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.

© 2008 The Associated Press

thank you, from the bottom of my heart !!!!!

post updated Aug. 22 » hearing likely in 2009

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i‘m putting here my previous one, ok ??? Jeff Wood - Innocent
set for tonight

Texas Appears Set to Execute Accomplice

The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Jeffery Lee Wood by lethal injection tonight, even though he did not actually kill anyone.
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