Entries tagged with “Clarence Curtis Jordan”
Time on Death Row
,Apr 20, 2026
Texas Death Sentence Vacated for Mentally Ill and Intellectually Disabled Man After Half-Century on Death Row — And Nearly 40 Years Without a Lawyer
By the time 21-year-old Clarence Curtis Jordan shot a man during a grocery store burglary in 1977, he had been struggling for most of his life with hallucinations and intellectual deficits. His IQ score placed him in the bottom 0.5% of the population. He identified the president as “John Hill” and said he often saw “old, weird, burnt-up looking people” watching him. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) found him incompetent to be executed in 1988. But Mr. Jordan then fell through the…