Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturns death sentence of Clarence Curtis Jordan after nearly 50 years on death row
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has made a significant ruling by overturning the death sentence of Clarence Curtis Jordan, a 70-year-old man who spent almost five decades on death row. Jordan had been convicted in 1978 for the murder of Joe L. Williams, a grocer in Houston, Texas. Throughout much of this time, he was without proper legal representation, raising substantial concerns regarding the fairness of his trial and ongoing detention. The case gained renewed attention when attorney Ben Wolff, director of the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs in Austin, took on Jordan's case in 2024. Wolff filed... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 10 Apr 2026 16:17 LONDON
