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Sanders: Another execution is scheduled under flawed law-of-parties provision

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/columnists/bob_ray_sanders//index.htmlSunday, Aug 17, 2008 Posted on Sun, Aug. 17, 2008 Sanders: Another execution is scheduled under flawed law-of-parties provisionBOB RAY SANDERSbobray@star-telegram.com Make a note of this name: Jeffery Lee Wood. And this date: Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. That's Wood's scheduled date of execution, two days after his 35th birthday. Now, go back in time with me. It was a year ago this month ? just outside the prison walls that house the Texas death chamber ? when a small group of us staunch death-penalty opponents stood in stunned amazement with the family of a condemned man. We had just gotten news that Gov. Rick Perry had taken the advice of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and commuted the sentence of Kenneth Foster from death to life in prison...continue to full post

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