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Texas’ highest criminal court overturns sentence of inmate who has been on death row for 48 years
The ruling leaves his capital murder conviction intact and sends the case back for resentencing, with life with parole the only other punishment.
- Texas' highest criminal court overturned the death sentence of Clarence Curtis Jordan, 70, who was on death row for 48 years for murdering a Houston grocer in 1978.
- Jordan, who is intellectually disabled, was found incompetent in subsequent years and could not be executed, but spent nearly four decades without an attorney advocating for him.
- After new legal advocacy, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Jordan's death sentence and sent the case back to Harris County for a new punishment proceeding.
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Texas’ highest criminal court overturns sentence of inmate who has been on death row for 47 years
Texas’ highest criminal court has overturned the death sentence of a Harris County man who was on death row for nearly half a century.
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Clarence Curtis Jordan, who was considered incompetent due to his intellectual disability, killed a man in 1978, and then the lawyers forgot about him.
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