Texas Is About To Execute A Man For Reasons That Are Embarrassing Even By Texas Standards

Next Wednesday, Texas plans to execute a man with a history of serious psychological problems. The man was sentenced to death largely due to the testimony of a quack doctor. And there are serious doubts about whether this death sentence is constitutional even if he were not tried under such suspicious circumstances.

More than a third of America’s executions take place in Texas. Texas’ eagerness to execute people is well known and even celebrated by the state’s top elected officials. And yet the case of Jeffrey Lee Wood stands out as unusual even by Texas’ standards. It’s rare to see any capital case that raises so many doubts about why an individual was condemned to die....
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