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Federal District Court Stays Jeff Wood Execution for Mental Evaluation

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AP reports, "Federal judge delays execution of condemned inmate," via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.A federal judge has granted a request to delay the execution of condemned inmate Jeffery Wood. Jeffery Wood had been set to be executed Thursday for taking part in a fatal 1996 convenience store robbery in the Texas Hill Country. But a federal judge on Thursday granted a request by Wood's attorneys to delay his execution so they could hire a mental health expert to pursue their arguments that he is incompetent to be executed.At issue is Wood's competency to be executed. The Supreme Court established a standard in 1986, in Ford v. Wainwright. The Court revisited the issue last year in Panetti v. Quarterman. This is from a news release issued by Texas Defender Service, which is involved in the Wood case:Today, the Federal District Court granted a stay of execution in the case of Jeff Wood to allow the court to consider compelling evidence that Jeff Wood is too mentally ill to be executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 21, 2008 (boomark / email).