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Alabama Execution - UPDATED

By Steve Hall

Update -- An expanded version of the AP report is available via the Daily Comet of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.Wood was the fourth person executed in Alabama this year and the 10th in the last two years. The state resumed executions in 1983 after a court-ordered moratorium.The clemency petition said state psychiatrists have said Wood is mentally disabled and that his reading, spelling and arithmetic skills are in the second- to fourth-grade range. The petition had asked Riley to stop the execution partly because his attorneys failed to tell jurors that he was mentally disabled in the sentencing phase of trial.The AP reports, "Alabama executes inmate who claimed mental disability," via the Birmingham News/AL.com website. Alabama has executed 50-year-old Holly Wood, accused of shooting his former girlfriend to death as she slept in 1993...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).