NO Vigil at 11th & Congress (near Capitol), 5:30 p.m.
(AP) 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 ninth condemned prisoner put to death this year and the fifth this month in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has rejected a clemency request for a condemned inmate facing execution this week. The board voted 7-0 to not recommend Gov. Rick Perry commute the death sentence of Jeffery Wood. Wood is set to die Thursday for the 1996 death of Kriss Keeran, a clerk at a convenience store in Kerrville. Wood’s lawyers don’t dispute he deserves punishment but argue he doesn’t deserve to die for a murder that occurred while he was waiting in a car outside the store. Daniel Reneau, the gunman, already has been executed.