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The confirmation that a trial judge and prosecutor were having an affair, before, during, and after a death penalty trial is getting a lot of scrutiny; it's another stain on Texas justice. At his State of Mine blog, Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith has, "Mike Hall: The Court of Criminal Appeals Must Put the Brakes on Charles Hood's Execution."For three years, senior editor Mike Hall has been following the case of Death Row inmate Charles Hood, who is set to be executed next Tuesday, June 17 ? unless his request for a stay is granted by the Court of Criminal Appeals. As news reports today indicate, there may well be cause for such a stay. Mike thinks it?s a no-brainer, as he wrote in an e-mail to me this afternoon. The CCA has done a lot of foolish things in the last decade...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 13, 2008 (boomark / email).