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Hood Execution Stayed - UPDATED

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State District Judge Curt Henderson has just withdrawn Charles Hood's execution date and has recused himself from any further proceedings in the case.  AP reports, "Judge withdraws death warrant for inmate."A Collin County state district judge has put off the scheduled execution of Charles Dean Hood for a double slaying in suburban Dallas almost 20 years ago. In an order signed just over an hour before Hood could have gone to the death chamber Tuesday night, state District Judge Curt Henderson withdrew the execution warrant after defense attorneys for the inmate had sought any correspondence in the Collin County district attorney's office that could be related to accusations of a long-standing romantic relationship between one of Hood's prosecutors and the judge who presided over his trial in 1990...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).