Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

News Coverage of Charles Hood Case

By standdown

Adam Ellick reports, "Time Runs Out for Execution in Texas," in the New York Times.A day of desperate filings climaxed at midnight on Wednesday when prison officials ran out of time to carry out the execution of a Texas death row inmate who had lost his last-minute bids for a stay. Gov. Rick Perry then immediately issued a one-time 30-day reprieve, according to The Houston Chronicle. The inmate, Charles Hood, was shuttled to the death chamber several times as prosecutors, defense lawyers, the United States Supreme Court and Texas courts exchanged more than a dozen appeals and rulings throughout the night. "We've had a lot of cases in Texas that defy common sense, but this does reach a new low," said Andrea Keilen, executive director of the Texas Defender Service...continue to full post

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