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Continued Coverage of Charles Hood Case

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The e-version of the ABA Journal today reports, "Texas High Court Judge Defends Execution Order."The judge in charge of the case for death-row inmate Charles Dean Hood is defending a ruling made without input from defense lawyers that allowed the execution to proceed. ?They said they needed one hour, but three hours later we had no response," Judge Cheryl Johnson told the Austin American-Statesman. "We waited." Prison officials, conferring with Gov. Rick Perry, let Hood?s execution warrant expire shortly before midnight on Tuesday when they decided there was not enough time to carry out the lethal injection. Hood?s lawyers had filed a last-minute flurry of appeals, chronicled by ABAJournal.com throughout the day. They ended when Texas? highest criminal court ruled at 9:18 p...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).