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News Coverage of the Hood Ruling

By Steve Hall

The CCA's ruling in Ex Parte Hood, overturning Hood's Death Sentence, is in Adobe .pdf format."Death Penalty Is Thrown Out in Texas Murders," is the title of John Schwartz' report in today's New York Times. A Texas court threw out the death sentence on Wednesday of a man whose double murder conviction gained international attention because of revelations that the judge and prosecutor had had an extramarital affair. But the decision from the State Court of Criminal Appeals did not mention the affair, focusing instead on whether jurors had been blocked from getting information that might have helped them deliver a less severe sentence. The prisoner, Charles D. Hood, was convicted in 1990 in the fatal shootings of Ronald Williamson and Tracie Lynn Wallace, a couple he lived with in Plano, Tex...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).