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Texas Accomplice Execution Set for Tonight

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Today's Washington Post reports, "Texas Appears Set to Execute Accomplice."  It's written by Darryl Fears.The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Jeffery Lee Wood by lethal injection tonight, even though he did not actually kill anyone. Wood was sitting in a truck outside a convenience store when an accomplice shot and killed a cashier in a botched robbery 12 years ago. If the execution moves forward, Wood, 35, will become only the eighth person to be put to death as an accomplice since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center. More than 1,100 people have been executed during this period. The executed accomplices do not include those who were put to death for hiring someone to commit murder...continue to full post

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