Updating an earlier story, the accusations that Judge Verla Sue Holland had an affair with the prosecutor in Charles Dean Hood's murder case has delayed the convicted murderer's execution once again.

Hood was set to die Wednesday night, fulfilling the sentence issued to him by Judge Holland for the double murder of Tracie Lynn Wallace and Ronald Williamson in Plano, Texas in 1989.

A Texas court of appeals put the execution hold to make sure it came after the hearing scheduled to investigate a possible relationship between Judge Holland and prosecuter Thomas O'Connell which is now set for September 12th, two days after the date set for Hood's execution.

The hearing not only could delay the death sentence indefinately, it could even spark a new trial altogether.