Crime | Texas Con Wins Death Stay in Judge Affair Appeal Relationship between judge and prosecutor not reason for decision By Katherine Thompson Posted Sep 10, 2008 11:48 AM CDT Copied Charles Dean Hood was scheduled for execution at the Texas prison in Huntsville, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. A Texas appeals court stopped the scheduled execution. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File) A Texas death-row inmate who filed an appeal alleging that an affair between the judge and prosecutor compromised his trial has been granted a stay of execution. But, ABC News reports, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals approved Charles Dean Hood's request based not on the affair but because of a problem with jury instructions during his trial for murder and robbery. Read These Next This is the most 'American' car on the road. Trump voted who supported mass deportations could be deported herself. What makes a person cool? These six traits. "Admiral Piett" of the Star Wars universe died from COVID. Report an error