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Diane Jennings' Updated Report

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...in the Dallas Morning News is, "Collin County murderer not executed after day of legal wrangling." After hours of legal wrangling between attorneys and judges, including protests from leading legal ethicists over an alleged relationship between a judge and prosecutor in the trial of Charles Dean Hood, Tuesday passed without the Collin County murderer?s execution. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ultimately green-lighted the execution by ordering a local judge to reinstate a death warrant that had been withdrawn by another judge. The death warrant was reinstated, but the execution was called off shortly before midnight when prison officials said they didn?t have time to ensure it was conducted properly before the midnight deadline for the death warrant was to expire...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).