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The Jeffery Wood Case

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"Death row inmate loses appeal," is Michael Graczyk's AP report from the Sunday Austin American Statesman.A Texas death row inmate who came within hours of being executed last summer has lost an appeal in federal court, where his lawyers argued that he is too mentally ill to be put to death. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, rejected the appeal from Jeffery Wood, 35, who received the death penalty for the January 1996 slaying of Kriss Keeran at a convenience store in Kerrville. Evidence showed that Wood waited in a car outside the convenience store while his roommate, Daniel Reneau, fatally shot 31-year-old Keeran in the face with a .22-caliber pistol. Both men then robbed the store, taking more than $11,000 in cash and checks...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).