convenience store clerk

Stay of execution: Groups champion ruling

Daily Texan  Thu, 08/21/2008 - 11:00pm

Members of anti-death-penalty groups stood outside the Capitol and chanted, "They said death row; we say hell no!" shortly after U.S.

District Judge Orlando Garcia granted Jeffrey Wood an indefinite stay of execution Thursday. In 1997, a jury convicted Wood as an accomplice in the murder of a convenience store clerk and sentenced him to death.



 

Overheard in Austin

Austinist  Wed, 11/21/2007 - 11:58am
Glassy-eyed college student: Make me a sandwich robot.

Equally glassy-eyed friend: Wait, do you mean "make me a sandwich, robot" or do you mean "make me a
sandwich robot"?

Like, are you calling me a robot or are you saying you want