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AP's Mike Graczyk has, "Lawyers try to block execution set for Thursday."Lawyers for condemned prisoner Jeffery Wood say his mental problems led him to get involved in a robbery scheme that left a Texas Hill Country store clerk murdered in a fatal shooting carried out by a partner while Wood sat outside in a car. Attorneys for Wood were in the federal courts seeking permission to hire mental health experts to pursue their arguments that he was incompetent to be executed Thursday for the January 1996 slaying of Kriss Keeran, 31, at a Kerrville Texaco gas station convenience store. Texas courts have refused the appeals. Wood would be the ninth condemned prisoner put to death this year and the fifth this month in the nation's busiest capital punishment state...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 20, 2008 (boomark / email).