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The Independent Looks at the Hood Case

By Steve Hall

The Independent, a British broadsheet, reports, "The death row prisoner, the judge who sentenced him, and the prosecutor who was having sex with her," in today's issue.  It's written by David Usborne.They are tough in Texas and perhaps it is not surprising there has been little sympathy for the whining of Charles Dean Hood about the odd "daytime soap" circumstances of his conviction back in 1990 for double murder. He is on death row in a US state that has no peer in its enthusiasm for executing prisoners.The condemned and their lawyers will always look for ammunition at least to delay the moment of final dispatch. But Hood and his defence team have something slightly unusual to say and, even though the highest appeals court in the Lone Star State has still declared itself unimpressed, a remarkable array of the great and the good of the legal world are now pleading with the US Supreme Court to intervene...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 24, 2010 (boomark / email).