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Texas AG Supports Inquiry Before Execution

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

From an article by Diane Jennings in the Dallas Morning News: The Texas attorney general's office on Thursday took the unusual step of joining the defense in saying that death row inmate Charles Dean Hood should not die until after an investigation into an alleged romantic relationship at the time of his trial between the prosecutor and judge. Although noting that the facts of the murders of Ronald Williamson and Tracie Lynn Wallace are not in question, Attorney General Greg Abbott wrote in a letter to Collin County District Attorney John Roach, "The impartiality of a defendant's trial and conviction must be beyond reproach." The letter said that the attorney general's office would file a legal brief today asking that the trial court fully review the matter, even if it means delaying the execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).