Death Sentence Overturned After 48 Years

A death sentence handed down by a Harris County jury in 1978 was overturned Thursday by the Court of Criminal Appeals.  Clarence Jordan, 70, has been on Texas Death Row for almost 50 years, serving out one of the longest death sentences in the nation while suffering from intellectual disabilities and schizophrenia, his attorney told […] The post Death Sentence Overturned After 48 Years appeared first on Houston Press .

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