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Acclaimed preservationist, author, and professor Anthony Wood paid a visit this week to Charleston, South Carolina, where he serves as Chairman of the Drayton Hall Site Council. Click here for a link to Drayton Hall and to learn more about...

... and sentenced to die for his role in the robbery and killing of a store manager, Kris Keeran, even though Wood was outside the building at the time of the killing. According to Texas' "law of parties" statute, participants in a crime can be convicted ... murder. "At Reneau's trial, the prosecution had argued that Reneau was the person chiefly responsible for the crime and that Wood's role was secondary," the Death Penalty Information Center said. The federal court intervened after the Texas Board of ...

... . Perry's spokeswoman, Allison Castle, said. And: Under the Texas "law of parties," the question of whether Mr. Wood anticipated the murder is important. People who conspire to commit a felony are all responsible for an ensuing crime, like murder, if ... . He has never received psychiatric or mental health care for these impairments. The same deficiencies that prevented Mr. Wood from communicating with his trial lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding prevent Mr. Wood from having a ...

... habeas corpus for an evidentiary hearing on the issue of mental retardation. Schmitt, the defense expert appointed for this hearing assessed Woods as mentally retarded. The IQ score came in at 68 after Schmitt adjusted the test for the Flynn effect, but ... held that the additional evidence did not compellingly or dramatically undermine the substantial evidence that supported a finding that Woods was not mentally retarded. Even applying the Flynn effect, a rational fact finder could find the high, ...

... speculation that the failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence was a 'strategic decision.'" In his petition for certiorari, Wood argued that there is a circuit split regarding the interaction between subsections (d)(2) and (e)(1). The ... state court record, rather than the totality of the evidence. Second, and returning to the issue that dominated the cert. petition, Wood urges the Court to adopt the interpretation of Section 2254 used in the Third and Ninth Circuits. He argues that ...

... , even if its validity is assumed, indicates at most that some members of the public would draw the incorrect inference that Woods had some connection with Rush's print. The risk of misunderstanding, not engendered by any explicit indication on the ... be able to reap substantial financial rewards from authorized appearances and endorsements. It is not at all clear that the appearance of Woods's likeness in artwork prints which display one of his major achievements will reduce the commercial value ...

... commit one crime but another crime occurs, each person is equally responsible for that crime, if it was foreseeable. The state argues that Wood hatched with Reneau the plan to rob the Texaco, where their friend Keeran worked, on Jan. 2, when a large ... for ... nine years," he says. "This guy, his mental capacities are not sufficient to make him a mastermind." Wood was diagnosed with learning disabilities as a child, and school officials consistently categorized him as emotionally stunted. He always ...

... s. Little T was charged then to measure mentally the differences, if any, between wood bats and metal bats. Our findings, soon to be published in dense numerical data ... t figure out about the tester's conclusions finding that there is no difference between wood and metal bats. It may well be the case that a ball, when struck by a metal bat in ... larger sweet spot, and are, for their weight/length ratio, lighter than wood bats. What this means is that players swinging metal can use a larger bat (youth ...

... Foster's execution and called for the Legislature to re-examine the law of parties. Wood, convicted under the same law of parties, is set to be executed this week, five months ... were and how much money was expected to be in the safe. When Reneau went into the store, Wood remained in a pickup and was later shocked by the sound of a gunshot. Reneau had killed ... 1996 robbery, was convicted, Charles Keeran called Mr. Reneau and Mr. Wood "garbage." "I want to see 'em die," he said. Five years later he ...

... Angeles might require air-quality control, however for environmentalists to claim [outdoor] wood-burning furnaces are a health problem in Indiana is ridiculous. State regulators asked for comments ... growing number of communities nationwide setting their own rules on the increasingly popular wood boilers, which are not federally regulated. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ... We tell them you have the right to use a wood burner and stop using foreign oil, but you never have the right to smoke out ...