Posted on 08/19/2016 8:06:12 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday halted an execution planned for next week of a man convicted as an accomplice to a murder he did not commit in a case that raised questions about how the state applies the death penalty.
Jeffery Wood, 43, was scheduled to be executed on Aug. 24 by lethal injection. He was convicted of taking part in a 1996 convenience store robbery during which clerk Kriss Keeran was fatally shot.
In its decision, the appeals court asked a lower court to review his sentence and claims from Wood's lawyer that it was obtained in violation of due process because it was based on false testimony and false scientific evidence.
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By this logic, Clemenza didn’t kill Pauly because he was taking a leak outside the car and worrying about the canoli.
Some key requirement of the law was allegedly based on the testimony of a stooge doctor. The only remedy is to reconsider the case in light of the failure in the justice process, which is what the appellate court told the trial court to do. It could still come out as sentencing upheld, but if so it would have to do on other specific grounds — not the grounds of the testimony of the stooge.
“Law of Parties” ....hum...
Seems to me, if you don’t actually murder someone but only participated, you should get a life term for it and not pay with you own life since the actual murderer already paid with his...
But I don’t plan to lose any sleep over it...
Accessory to felony murder. If they won’t execute him, hive him life without parole in the Texas state pen. I’d rather be dead.
I remember a post about this case. It was last week or so? Anyway, it sounded like it needed to be looked at, again.
I know that at the federal level, a similar law exists but I’m not sure if the application of the law is different at state or federal levels.
Personally, I’d be livid if I just happened to go to a store with someone I knew, and that person killed someone in an attempt to rob, and then I got a death penalty along with the person who did a bad deed that I had NO foreknowledge of.
He was driving the getaway car and was waiting in it when the clerk was shot. Then he went in and helped steal the cashbox. He said he didn’t know there was going to be a shooting. Evidence was introduced at trial by a debunked shrink who didn’t examine him that he would do violence in the future.
I’d say you pal around with a murderer robbing joints, you share in what the murderer does - and the punishment.
How would you explain stepping over the body to help steal the cashbox?
“He was convicted of taking part in a 1996 convenience store robbery during which clerk Kriss Keeran was fatally shot.”
He was committing a violent felony and someone was killed in the process, THAT is capital murder.
Osama Bin Laden never killed anyone. Neither did Hitler.
“I’d be livid if I just happened to go to a store with someone I knew, and that person killed someone in an attempt to rob, and then I got a death penalty along with the person who did a bad deed that I had NO foreknowledge of.”
And that’s why you don’t go along when your friend is going to do an armed robbery.
There also used to be death penalty in some states for kidnapping or rape, IIRC. The next goal of the left is no death penalty, no life terms, though they will probably want them for hate crimes or just hate thoughts.
If you commit your evil murder in Huntsville, you deserve to be executed just on general principles. That’s where Texas executions take place.
I lived in the town where/when the murder of Kris Keeran took place. I am sorry to see the execution has been delayed.
That’s the law as passed by the Texas legislature: the felony murder rule.
But, what about the poor guy that was murdered? No one gives a damn about him. His widow if he was married. His family? Again, who gives a damn about him? |I followed this case on a previous thread and cannot recall where one poster expressed sympathy for the poor guy that was murdered. Some agreed with the sentence, as do I. But most lamented the innocent murdered.
When he walked into/onto the scene of the crime, did he immediately flee the scene and call the police and become a witness against the murderer? Or did he help dispose of the evidence and help load the loot?
Who says nobody gives a damn about him?
Seems to me that’s the point here - giving a damn about him enough to make his murderers include this confederate.
I agree with you unless it was not him, if he was not there.
Here in Texas, when we find a nest of rattlers we take out the whole nest. Same goes for rabid dogs on the street.
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