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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.