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The September issue of Texas Monthly has a riveting correspondence, "My Life on Death Row," letters from Charles Dean Hood to TM writer Michael Hall.  Here is some material from the introduction to the letters:In 1990, Charles Dean Hood was convicted of murder and sentenced to die. Twelve years later he began writing to senior editor Michael Hall. Here, in three of his letters, he describes in extraordinary detail his two decades spent awaiting execution and reveals what it?s like to be taken to Huntsville for the lethal injection only to receive a stay at the last possible minute?not once, but twice. On September 10, Charles Dean Hood will be executed. Or not. Hood, who was sentenced to death in 1990, has cheated the executioner five times now, in 1994, in 1999, in 2005, and twice on his most recent date, June 17, which turned out to be one of the most dramatic execution days in Texas history...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 25, 2008 (boomark / email).