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More Focus on the Jeff Wood Case

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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is expected to announce its recommendation in the Jeff Wood case today.  The Texas governor is not bound by a recommendation, but a Texas governor may only commute a death sentence upon a positive recommendation of the Board. AP's Mike Graczyk reports, "Case of non-triggerman set to die raises questions," via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.His lawyers don't dispute that convicted killer Jeffery Wood deserves punishment for his involvement in a robbery more than a dozen years ago where a clerk at a Texas Hill Country gas station convenience store was gunned down. But Woods' attorneys and supporters argue he doesn't deserve to die for a murder that occurred while he was waiting in a car outside the store in Kerrville...continue to full post

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