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Texas Execution Postponed; Oklahoma Goes Forward

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The state trial judge has withdrawn the execution warrant in the controversial case of Charles Dean Hood. AP story by Michael Graczyk is here. -------------------------------------------------------- Thirteen years ago, Japanese exchange student Ken Yamamoto was burned to death in his Oklahoma City apartment. Terry Lyn Short had thrown a firebomb into the apartment downstairs, which was occupied by his former girlfriend and others. "Yamamoto was rushed to a hospital with third-degree burns over almost his entire body. He survived for about 30 hours, long enough for his mother to fly from Japan and be by his side before he died," reports the AP. Overdue justice for this crime was finally carried out shortly after 6:00 p.m., Central Time, according to another AP story.continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).