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Parole board rejects clemency for non-triggerman set to die
BY MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press Writer
August 19, 2008

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has
rejected a clemency request for a condemned inmate facing execution
this week.

The board voted 7-0 to not recommend Gov. Rick Perry commute the
death sentence of Jeffery Wood.

Wood is set to die Thursday for the 1996 death of Kriss Keeran, a
clerk at a convenience store in Kerrville. Wood's lawyers don't
dispute he deserves punishment but argue he doesn't deserve to die
for a murder that occurred while he was waiting in a car outside the
store. Daniel Reneau, the gunman, already has been executed.

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