Entries tagged with “Juan Segundo”
Issues
Oct 10, 2018
Texas Courts Rule for Two Death-Row Prisoners on Intellectual Disability, Junk-Science Claims
Two Texas prisoners took steps away from death row as state courts ruled in their favor on issues involving false or faulty scientific evidence and argument. On October 5, 2018, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) granted a stay of execution to Juan Segundo (pictured, left), directing a Tarrant County trial court to reconsider a claim of intellectual disability that the courts had previously rejected based on an unconstitutional, unscientific standard for measuring his functioning. Four…