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Texas Death Row Inmate Gets Execution Postponed: AP writer, Schuyler Dixon, reports that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals postponed Charles Dean Hood's execution, scheduled for Wednesday, because it wanted to reconsider whether the jury instructions were flawed. Hood is a former bouncer at a topless club who was 20 when he was arrested in Indiana for the fatal shootings of Tracie Lynn Wallace, 26, an ex-dancer, and her boyfriend, Ronald Williamson, 46, at Williamson's home in Plano in 1989. The lawyers of the death row inmate argued that a secret romantic relationship between retired judge Verla Sue Holland and former Collin County District Attorney Tom O'Connel tainted his trial. In an earlier ruling the Austin-based appeals court dismissed claims by Hood's attorneys citing procedural reasons for the rejection...continue to full post

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