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Washington Post: Texas Appears Set to Execute Accomplice

By "Persian Cowboy"

Here is the Washington Post article on today's scheduled execution of Jeff Wood. Also Democracy Now is planning to send a satellite truck to Livingston today morning to interview Jeff's family members. By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff WriterThursday, August 21, 2008; Page A02 The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Jeffery Lee Wood by lethal injection tonight, even though he did not actually kill anyone. Wood was sitting in a truck outside a convenience store when an accomplice shot and killed a cashier in a botched robbery 12 years ago. If the execution moves forward, Wood, 35, will become only the eighth person to be put to death as an accomplice since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on August 21, 2008 (boomark / email).