Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Texas Death Penalty Blog

Criminal Law

: Texas Death Penalty Blog

Parole board rejects clemency for non-triggerman

By "Persian Cowboy"

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected Jeff Wood's clemency request. Associated Press has more: HUNTSVILLE, Texas ? The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday rejected a clemency request for condemned inmate Jeffery Wood, moving him a step closer to execution this week. The board voted 7-0 to not recommend Gov. Rick Perry commute Wood's death sentence. Wood is set to die Thursday for the 1996 death of Kriss Keeran, a clerk at a convenience store in Kerrville. Wood's lawyers don't dispute he deserves punishment but argue he doesn't deserve to die for a murder that occurred while he was waiting in a car outside the store. Daniel Reneau, the gunman, already has been executed. Wood, whose 35th birthday was Tuesday, was convicted under the Texas law of parties, which makes accomplices as liable as the actual killer in capital murder cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 20, 2008 (boomark / email).