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Harris County’s longest-serving death row inmate has a lawyer for the first time in decades
For the first time in 36 years, Harris County’s longest-serving death row inmate will have a lawyer ... in Jordan’s case after representing Syed Rabbani, whose death sentence was overturned ...
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Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid ‘evolving standards of decency’
Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a record low.
Texas death row inmate to be executed for 2011 murder of Arlington pastor
Steven Nelson, 38, was sentenced to death in 2012, a year after he was found guilty of murdering Arlington pastor Clint ...