A federal judge has granted a request to delay the execution of condemned inmate Jeffery Wood.
Jeffery Wood had been set to be executed Thursday for taking part in a fatal 1996 convenience store robbery in the Texas Hill Country.
But a federal judge on Thursday granted a request by Wood's attorneys to delay his execution so they could hire a mental health expert to pursue their arguments that he is incompetent to be executed.
Wood would have been the 9th condemned prisoner put to death this year and the fifth this month in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.
Source: Associated Press
Jeffery Wood had been set to be executed Thursday for taking part in a fatal 1996 convenience store robbery in the Texas Hill Country.
But a federal judge on Thursday granted a request by Wood's attorneys to delay his execution so they could hire a mental health expert to pursue their arguments that he is incompetent to be executed.
Wood would have been the 9th condemned prisoner put to death this year and the fifth this month in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.
Source: Associated Press
No comments:
Post a Comment