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: TalkLeftHood Spared Death ... For Now
By TChris
You wouldn't have wanted to be Charles Dean Hood last night.
Hood waited in a holding cell adjacent to the death chamber in Huntsville for hours while lawyers with the Collin County district attorney's office sought his execution and Hood's lawyers tried to prevent the death sentence from being carried out.
You'll remember Hood is the defendant who was sentenced to death by the judge who was allegedly having an affair with the district attorney who prosecuted Hood's case. The death warrant was recalled after Hood raised the issue, only to be reinstated by the state's highest court. But the wrangling lasted so long that the warrant expired before Hood could be executed.
"Only in Texas," said Lawrence Fox, who teaches law at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Full post as published by TalkLeft on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).
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