Jeff Wood is waiting to die on Texas Death Row with an execution date of August 21st, 2008. Jeff was charged under the Law of Parties, and was not the shooter in this crime. Jeff could not anticipate that a murder would occur.The actual shooter in this case has already been executed by the state of Texas.

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There were several errors made in Jeff’s trial . He did not receive a fair trial.

Jeff also have been diagnosed with mental illnesses dating back to his childhood.

From Jeff Wood’s Website

Full name: Jeffrey Lee Wood

Date of birth: 8/ 19 /74
Convicted: Killing a convenience store clerk during a January 1996 robbery in Kerrville, TX
Convicted under: The law of parties.
Previous record: None

Co-defendant: Daniel Earl Reneau (executed on 06/13/2002)

Short case summary: At approximately 6:00 a.m. on Jan. 2, 1996, while Wood waited outside, Reneau entered the gas station with a gun and pointed it at Kris Keeran, the clerk standing behind the counter. Reneau ordered him to a back room. When he did not move quickly enough, Reneau fired one shot with a 22 caliber handgun that struck Keeran between the eyes. Death was almost instantaneous. Proceeding with the robbery, Reneau went into the back office and took a safe. When hearing the shot, Wood got out of the car to see what was going on. He walked by the door and looked through the glass. Then he went inside, and he looked over the counter and ran to the back, where Reneau was. Wood was then ordered, at gun point by Reneau, to get the surveillance video and to drive the getaway-car.

The AP is reporting that “Mexico made an emergency appeal to the U.N.’s highest court Thursday to block the execution of its citizens on death row in the United States.” One of the Mexican citizens, Jose Medellin, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Texas on Aug. 5.

More from the AP:

Mexico contends the United States is defying a 2004 order by the International Court of Justice to review the cases of 51 condemned Mexican prisoners.

That ruling said the inmates had been denied the right to help from their consulate after their arrests. It said the death row prisoners were entitled to a reconsideration of their trials and sentences to determine whether the violation affected their cases.

Informally known as the World Court, the tribunal is the U.N.’s judicial arm for resolving disputes among nations. Its decisions are binding and final, but it has no enforcement powers.

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Sandra Babcock, representing Mexico, said that since the court’s decision four years ago, 33 Mexicans had sought reviews of their cases in state courts.

Only one request was granted, Babcock said. A second inmate accepted a commutation to life imprisonment in exchange for waiving his claim for a review.

“All other efforts to enforce the judgment have failed,” she said.

Mexico listed five of its citizens slated for imminent execution, all in Texas. Medellin, 33, was sentenced to death in the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago.

In an article reporting on the on, off, on, off scheduled execution of Charles Hood last night, the Statesman reports that

The Court of Criminal Appeals refused to order Henderson to reinstate the order because he had recused himself from the case. Prosecutors then successfully asked the Court of Criminal Appeals to order the region’s presiding judge, John Ovard, to reinstate the death warrant.

According to Hood’s lawyers, Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller then contacted Ovard, urging him to reinstate the order allowing the execution to go forward, which he did.

Last Sept 25, Keller refused to work late to accept an appeal from the defense lawyers of Michael Richard, who was executed later that night.

UPDATE, 11:55: Execution Cancelled after prison officials were faced with a midnight CDT deadline Tuesday to administer the lethal drugs to Charles Dean Hood but feared they could not follow the proper procedures in time after lengthy appeals delayed the scheduled punishment.

UPDATE, 11:19 p.m.: The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Charles Dean Hood’s final appeals and the condemned double murderer is set to be executed “any minute now,” according to Michelle Lyons, a spokesperson with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.