8/19/2008 7:30 AM
By: Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, Texas—Jeffery Wood's lawyers don't dispute that the convicted killer deserves punishment for his role in a 1996 convenience store holdup in which a store clerk died.
But Woods' attorneys and supporters contend he doesn't deserve to die for the shooting death of Kriss Keeran. They cite the fact that Keeran's murder happened while Woods was waiting in the getaway car outside the store in Kerrville. They also point out that the gunman who killed Keeran with a gunshot to the face, Daniel Reneau, has already been put to death.
Attorney Scott Sullivan said “a non-triggerman shouldn't get the death penalty.”
Wood is set to die in the Texas death chamber in Huntsville Thursday in a case that again put under scrutiny a unique Texas law that makes accomplices as culpable as the killer in a capital murder case.
Wood would be the ninth condemned prisoner put to death this year and the fifth this month in the nation's busiest capital punishment state. At least a dozen other Texas inmates have execution dates in the coming months.
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This has been the law for quite a while, it seems fair to me. Maybe the guy who shot the fatal bullet would not have been so apt to kill if he didn't have a get-away driver in the first place. So, the only question I have is, "Who cares?"
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