A death row inmate has asked Kim Kardashian to help him avoid execution.
Jeffery Lee Wood has spent the last 24 years on death row after being convicted of murder in 1998, despite not killing anyone.
Wood has already had his execution scheduled twice but is remaining hopeful that he could one day move out of the Polunsky Unit prison in Livingston, Texas.
Describing his grim outlook, Wood says he's often on 24 hour lockdown but when he isn't he gets breakfast between 1-3am, goes to sleep at 4am and then gets up at 6am for a two hour 'recreation', "which is basically sitting in separate cages outside," he says.
Despite the bleak setting, Wood says a spirit of camaraderie remains high with inmates.
Speaking to the Daily Star, Wood says he and his fellow lags sang 'Amazing Grace' together as their last inmate was taken to the death chamber. Wood maintains that he shouldn't be heading for the same fate as he 'never killed anyone.' He admits to being in discussion with a group of men to rob a Texaco convenience store in 1996.
With his friend Danny Reneau and another man, Bill Bunker, Jeff had spoken to store worker Kriss Lee Keeran about staging a robbery at the store and splitting the profit.
But before it took place Keeran and Jeff backed out.
On January 2, 1996, Reneau went ahead with the crime and walked into the store and demanded the contents of the safe.
In the row that followed Reneau ended up shooting Keeran in the face.
Jeff entered the store after waiting in the car and Reneau ordered him at gunpoint to help collect the $11,350 cash (worth about £17,000 in today’s money).
Reneau threatened to shoot Jeff's girlfriend and daughter if he didn’t do as he was told.
That made him an accessory to Keeran’s murder, under Texas law.
Jeff was first scheduled for execution on August 21, 2008, before being cancelled and a new date of August 24, 2016 was set.
That execution was also cancelled at the last minute.
Speaking to Daily Star, Jeff said that he is now asking Kim Kardashian for help.
He said: "I know she has tried to help other Death Row inmates, but I haven’t heard back from her yet."
Kim has been vocal about her opinion on prison reform for the past few years.
She has said in the future she would like to set up a law firm and hire former inmates.
