The order includes a concurring opinion by Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Court Judge Elsa Alcala in which she says she would also grant relief on additional claims not granted by the opinion that stayed the execution of Jeff Wood.
“I write separately because I would also remand claims five, six, and seven, in which applicant alleges that his participation in the offense and his moral culpability are too minimal to warrant the death penalty, that evolving standards of decency now prohibit the execution of a person who was convicted as a party to a capital offense, and, more generally, that Texas’s death-penalty scheme should be declared unconstitutional because it is arbitrary and fails to target the worst of the worst offenders, in violation of the Eighth Amendment.”
Text of CCA Order Staying Execution of Jeffery Wood by Scott Cobb on Scribd
Jeff Wood deserves to be home with his family and not locked up a day more than he has already which has been a shocking miscarriage of justice in itself.
I congratulate Jeff on the stay of execution that arrived on his birthday and hope & pray that this will not only see Jeff on his way to freedom but also the death of the stinking rotten murderous evil death penalty in Texas go down the sewer where it belongs!
God bless you Jeff & your family
& God bless Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Court Judge Elsa Alcala for her help
The death penalty is so wrong it is murder I am so pleased that Jeff got a stay he should not even be in prison, get this man home where he belongs like richard glossip and all the other Innocent people they got on death row
Bring Jeff Home!