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Sanders: Another execution is scheduled under flawed law-of-parties provision

By "Persian Cowboy"

Bob Ray Sander's of the Fort-Worth Star Telegram has written a great column about execution of Jeff Wood.Make a note of this name: Jeffery Lee Wood. And this date: Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008.That?s Wood?s scheduled date of execution, two days after his 35th birthday.Now, go back in time with me. It was a year ago this month ? just outside the prison walls that house the Texas death chamber ? when a small group of us staunch death-penalty opponents stood in stunned amazement with the family of a condemned man. We had just gotten news that Gov. Rick Perry had taken the advice of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and commuted the sentence of Kenneth Foster from death to life in prison. The decree came just a few hours before Foster?s scheduled execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 17, 2008 (boomark / email).