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Randall Mays, who has an IQ of 63, was resentenced to life without parole.

Randall Mays, who has an IQ of 63, was resentenced to life without parole.

"Texas criminal appeals court takes man off death row over intellectual disability" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media org

Defying a Supreme Court ruling, Georgia went through with a similar execution last week.

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Judge Natalia Cornelio found that Jeffery Prevost received ineffective legal assistance at trial.

Judge Natalia Cornelio found that Jeffery Prevost received ineffective legal assistance at trial.

Rabbani, 58, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1988 in the shooting death of 21-year-old Mohammed Jikar Hasan. His 1994 request for a new punishment phase of his trial was granted earlier this fall, and Harris County prosecutors are no longer asking for the death penalty as Rabbani is in a vegetative state, according to his new defense attorney.

Overlooked in the churn of one of the country’s busiest courthouses, the forgotten appeals included two death penalty cases, and one from a man who’s already finished his 20-year sentence.

Overlooked in the churn of one of the country’s busiest courthouses, the forgotten appeals included two death penalty cases, and one from a man who’s already finished his 20-year sentence.