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Hood finally gets a last minute "stay"; at least he wasn't executed

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Charles Hood finally got a stay at the last minute, but the Nine Horsemen of the Apocalypse overturned it, but the execution still did not take place. After legal wrangle, state halts execution by Steven Kreytak: In a Texas case closely watched by legal ethicists, Charles Dean Hood was spared execution late Tuesday night because legal appeals delayed the execution until the midnight deadline. The punishment was almost carried out on the former bouncer at a topless club after a series of court filings were made into the night Tuesday. Hood's recent allegations of a secret intimate relationship between his trial's judge and district attorney took a back seat to procedural maneuvering. Hood waited in a holding cell adjacent to the death chamber in Huntsville for hours while lawyers with the Collin County district attorney's office sought his execution and Hood's lawyers tried to prevent the death sentence from being carried out...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).