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Wait a Minute

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That's the title of a Tuesday Houston Chronicle editorial subtitled,"A stay of execution for convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood raises troubling questions of judicial integrity."Tuesday evening, 24 hours before he was due to be put to death by lethal injection, convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood was granted a stay of execution by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. In light of the serious questions raised about the fairness of his trial, that was the correct decision. What was startling however, was that the court stayed Hood's execution for a reason completely unrelated to those questions. Meanwhile, they dismissed altogether the credible evidence that an improper relationship existed between the judge and prosecutor trying the defendant's capital murder trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 17, 2008 (boomark / email).