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Execution Delayed: Dan Slater at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog posted this morning on the postponed execution of Charles Dean Hood. Our News Scan has the link to the AP story. Yesterday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted Hood a stay so that it could reconsider its previous dismissal of Hood's appeal challenging jury instructions. Last Friday, we blogged that the execution might not occur as scheduled because of allegations that the trial judge and a former district attorney had an affair during Hood's 1989 murder trial. Slater's post reports the two admitted, under oath, that they carried on a secret affair for years. When allegations first arose, the Texas AG supported inquiry into whether the affair took place. However, the affair was not the reason for the stay...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).