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Two Texecutions scheduled next week, but will either one go through?

Texas has a dozen more executions scheduled in 2008, including two back to back next Thursday and Friday.The first of those, Gregory Wright, will receive a stay, reports the Dallas News' Crime Blog, to allow DNA testing the defendant hopes will support his actual innocence claims. If there's biological evidence to be tested, I don't know why the courts wouldn't allow it until the 11th hour, but if it turns out to belong to someone else, Wright wouldn't be the first person freed from death row based on DNA evidence.The other scheduled execution has been the source of more attention here on Grits: Charles Dean Hood is still scheduled to meet his Maker next Friday, but a new judge (the last one recused himself) yesterday moved up the date for the civil hearing to determine whether Hood will get to depose the judge and prosecutor from his 1990 capital murder case to find out if they were conducting a romantic affair during the trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).