Entries tagged with “Syed Rabbani”
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…
Issues
Jul 14, 2023
Serious Concerns Raised After Discovery of Death Penalty Appeals Overlooked for Decades By Texas Courts
The Harris County District Clerk’s Office is attempting to resolve nearly one-hundred criminal appeals, including two death penalty cases, that were overlooked by the court system for decades. Among them are the appeals of the two death-sentenced prisoners, Tony Tyrone Dixon and Syed Rabbani. Tony Tyrone Dixon, a prisoner with intellectual disabilities, was convicted of capital murder he committed at the age of 17 and sentenced to death in 1995. In August 1998, Mr. Dixon’s appellate attorney…