Jeffrey Lee Wood was sentenced to death for his role in the murder of Kris Keeran on March 2 1998.
Every day since that sentence was passed, he’s been sitting on death row waiting for execution.
Over a series of correspondences with LADbible, he explained how those days take shape, as well as how he’s dealt with the two occasions that his number has been called by the state, and his hopes that the day of execution may never come.
Wood wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger and killed Keeran, but he did pay the price for his actions that day at the Texaco garage in Kerrville, Texas.
As it happened, Wood wasn’t even in the building at the time that his accomplice Daniel Reneau fatally shot him.
Despite that – as well as questions about whether he was mentally fit to stand trial – Wood was sentenced to death for capital murder under the law of parties.
For his role in the same crime, Reneau was executed in 2002.
The controversial law in Texas states that someone can be criminally responsible for the actions of another person under certain circumstances.
The law states: “[I]f in the attempt to carry out a conspiracy to commit one felony, another felony is committed by one of the conspirators, all conspirators are guilty of the felony actually committed, though having no intent to commit it, if the offense was committed in furtherance of the unlawful purpose and was one that should have been anticipated as a result of the carrying out of the conspiracy.”
In short, Wood never fired a weapon, but he was sentenced to death nonetheless.
Over the course of the last 28 years, Wood has stared down two execution dates, with one coming down to the final few hours, and another cancelled days beforehand.
Whilst he harbours hopes that his sentence may one day be commuted to life, execution remains a real possibility for the 49-year-old.
Speaking via secure messaging with LADbible, Wood explained what his daily life on Texas’ death row is like, as well as his thoughts on the incident that put him in prison and his hopes for the future.
As you might imagine, a day on death row is pretty bleak and extremely repetitive.
Wood said: “The whole farm [prison] starts at 1:30am, but in [general] population they send them a little and then give them a certain time to eat, then tell them to get out, then send in the next pod, and so on.
“Now, on death row they start feeding us at the same time but they do it by pods, so when they start at the end of the building, the [inmates at the] front might not get to eat until 3:00am.
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