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Stop the Execution: Jeff Wood Faces Death Tomorrow for a Murder He Didn't Commit

By "Persian Cowboy"

Thats the title of Liliana Segura's article for Alternet about the tomorrow's scheduled execution for Jeff Wood.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously denied clemency for Jeff Wood, a man who killed no one. This cannot be tolerated.Imagine being 14 years old and waiting to learn whether your father is going to live or die. Only you're not in a hospital waiting room, or anticipating dreadful news from a war zone. You are in Texas, and your father is on death row. His life is in the hands of seven people who will sit around a table and, in a deliberate manner, officially decide whether he should, indeed, be strapped to a gurney and injected with lethal chemicals, as planned. On the narrow chance that they decide to grant clemency, it is then up to the governor, a man who has signed off on more executions than any other in the country, to follow through...continue to full post

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