Texas court tosses sentence of state s longest-serving death row inmate
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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned the sentence of the state’s longest-serving death row inmate.
Raymond Riles has been on death row in Texas since 1976, despite being deemed mentally incompetent to be executed multiple times. On Wednesday, the court remanded the 70-year-old’s case to Harris County, Texas, for resentencing, since the jury wasn’t instructed to consider his mental illness when deciding his punishment.
“We’re very pleased,” Thea Posel, one of Riles’ attorneys, told the Texas Tribune. “It’s clearly established under Texas and [U.S.] Supreme Court law that Mr. Riles’ death sentence is unconstitutional.”
Texas longest serving death row inmate has sentence tossed
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