US EditionTexas’ 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 could make him eligible for parole or a lower-security prison with better medical care.
- 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 has overturned the death sentence of a man from Harris County who was on death row for nearly half a century. Clarence Curtis Jordan, 70, was first convicted in 1978 for the murder of Joe L. Williams, a 40-year-old Houston shopkeeper. Jordan, who suffers from an intellectual disability, was declared incompetent years later and therefore could not be executed. However, for nearly four decades, he did not have a lawye…
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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.
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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