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| Sentence reduced for inmate on Texas death row for 25 years |
| By wacotrib.com- Michael Graczyk |
| Published: 05/11/2017 |
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HOUSTON — A man on Texas’ death row for nearly 25 years for killing a Houston bank teller is getting his sentence reduced to life in prison after state attorneys told a federal court Wednesday they agree with his lawyers that he’s mentally impaired and ineligible for execution under U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Robert James Campbell, 44, will be resentenced to life and be eligible for parole because Texas did not yet have life without parole when he was arrested for the 1991 abduction, rape and slaying of 20-year-old Alejandra Rendon. The Texas attorney general’s office and Campbell’s attorneys submitted a joint recommendation to U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison saying evidence supported a finding that Campbell is intellectually disabled and “falls within the class of offenders the Supreme Court ... found ‘categorically excluded from execution.’” Read More. |
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