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New Execution Date Set for Charles Hood

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"Death Row inmate gets his sixth execution date," is Mike Graczyk's AP report, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.The execution clock is ticking again for condemned inmate Charles Dean Hood, whose scheduled trip to the Texas death chamber last week was stopped when court appeals weren?t resolved by 11 p.m. Executions must take place before midnight on the date set by a judge. On Wednesday, state District Judge John Nelms in Collin County set Hood?s new death date for Sept. 10. It?s the sixth execution date for Hood, 38, a former topless-club bouncer who was 20 when he was arrested in Indiana for the fatal 1989 shootings of Tracie Lynn Wallace, 26, a former dancer at the club, and her boyfriend, Ronald Williamson, 46, at Williamson?s home in Plano...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 26, 2008 (boomark / email).