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Texas: Court Halts Execution of Man Who Never Killed Anyone

HeadlineAug 22, 2016

A Texas court has halted the execution of Jeff Wood, a man who never killed anyone, six days before he was set to die by lethal injection. The court’s order on Friday asked for further examination of a claim that a jury was improperly persuaded to give Wood his sentence after testimony from a highly criticized psychiatrist nicknamed “Dr. Death.” Texas’s felony murder statute, called the “law of parties,” holds that anyone involved in a crime resulting in death can be held responsible. Wood was sitting outside in a truck when his friend, Daniel Reneau, killed convenience store clerk Kriss Keeran in 1996. Reneau was executed in 2002.

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