Texas man who didn’t kill anyone set for execution.

A Texas man who did not actually kill anyone is set to be executed within the next two weeks, the Washington Post reported on Friday. It is incredibly, incredibly rare for such accomplices in a murder to be put to death, even in Texas, where executions are more common than anywhere in the country. 

But Jeffrey Lee Wood is facing lethal injection on Aug. 24 for his role as getaway driver in a botched 1996 robbery that resulted in the death of Texaco convenience store clerk Kris Keeran.

The gunman in that case, a drifter named Daniel Reneau, was executed in 2002. Scott Cobb, president of Texas Moratorium Network, told the Post that Wood would be the “least culpable person executed in the modern era of death penalty” if he is put to death later this month.

Here is the Post’s account of Wood’s role in the crime:...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/12/texas_man_who_didn_t_kill_anyone_set_for_execution.html