Tuesday night, Charles Dean Hood, from Texas, should have been executed, but he got lucky, as prison officials stopped the execution.

The ex club bouncer was convicted almost 20 years of killing Ronald Williamson and Tracie Lynn Wallace and he was supposed to be executed Tuesday night. According to The Associated Press, Hood won a reprieve on the day he had to be executed, but later he was heading to the death chamber, as the Supreme Court rejected three appeals. It was little over 11 p.m. when prison officials realized that they couldn’t make all the arrangements before the midnight deadline.

Then, Gov. Rick Perry issued a 30-day reprieve.

Apparently State District Judge Curt Henderson lifted the death warrant. This decision made the prosecutors appeal and The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals revoked the order because Henderson didn’t have the authority to make such a decision.

According to The New York Times, Hood’s lawyers accused the judge who was on the case of being involved in a romantic relationship with the lead prosecutor. This happened in 1990, during Hood’s trial. After some time, the judge recused himself from the case, but didn’t give a reason. A new judge was assigned.

Hood’s lawyers went from one appeal to another and the prosecutors said that they were just trying to win some time.

Expressing his opinion regarding the death penalty, Lawrence J. Fox, a lawyer and professor of judicial ethics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, said that “these proceedings” were “susceptible to human error” and officials should think if the death penalty was really the best solution.

Hood would have been Texas’ 407th executed person. He remained in Huntsville.