Innocent Man on Texas Death Row set to be executed tonight-1/3

Texas Death Row Prisoner Faces Execution Tonight for Murder He Didn't Commit

A thirty-five-year-old man on death row in Texas faces execution tonight for a murder he didn't commit. Jeff Wood is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m., unless Governor Rick Perry grants him clemency. Wood was an accomplice in a 1996 convenience store robbery. He was sitting in a truck outside when the clerk was shot and killed. The man who pulled the trigger was executed six years ago, but Wood was given a death sentence for the same crime under the Texas law of parties. We go to the prison where Jeff Wood is awaiting death to speak with his wife, mother and father outside. We also speak with Liliana Segura of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. [includes rush transcript]

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• jeff
• wood
• texas
• law
• of
• pardons
• democracy
• now
• kenneth
• foster

[senatepage2001]

the state of texas are bunch of savage animals when it comes to putting a man on deathrow

[MrDano1980]

If we find out for sure we have ever killed an innocent person we should put all supporters of the death penalty to death for murder or at least accessories to murder

[BlackRepublican2010]

Bill Clinton executed a retard. Those progressives are savage animals who also steal your tax dollars!

[tripleJ1955]

@lotwyo So in other words, the lack of "pardons" is due to a government cover up, rather than there being any executions that deserve to be posthumously pardoned. Correct?

[lotwyo]

@ourtortsystem This is the problem: people thinking that folks "deserve" to die even if they didn't commit a crime but hat "dubious" lives or something alike.

[lotwyo]

@tripleJ1955 The reason any pardon has been issues is simple: it would provide immediate relief on Supreme Court as to forestall every death sentence.

[rayoat]

@tripleJ1955 Again your still being nieve. NOTHING in the universe is 100% perfect. Even flipping a coin and saying it will land on either heads or tails is NOT 100% perfect. People have, without doubt, been exceuted who are innocent. There isnt a "sane" human being on the plant who thinks otherwise. So which are you?

[dreamssofblue]

@MrDano1980 rubish! the death penalty is godly. it stomps out shitty d.n.a., 1 man at a time.

[dreamssofblue]

everybody is inocent in jail..... especially on death row. ask any one of them.

[tripleJ1955]

@rayoat A posthumous pardon can be issued for any person that has been wrongfully convicted of a crime, but as "stebaw" said, no such pardon has ever been issued for an executed convict, ergo, all of those executed were guilty. The 100+ exonerated people you speak of, are evidentiary of a system that works. Now what was that you were saying about being naive?