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Breakdownon Texas'deathrowWASHINGTON i AH) Hereis ;i Texas breakdown on de-lendants whose death sentences were directly set aside by the Supreme Court Thursday.All ol the defendants had appeals or petitions pending before the high court. The justices ordered the death sentences setand instructed lowertourts to apply the 5-4 decision that the death penalty as presently used in the United States is unconstitutional.Tlte majority of the f»00 defendant: on death rolls in 31 tales did not have appealspending in the high court. The 5-I decision presumably will wipe out then death sentences alsoRegional Kdison Wright, sentenced for murder Charles C. Smith, sentenced in 1966 for rape in Harris County-Robert Kddie I/mis Jackson, entenced in Newton County in the murder of Mrs MathewHowie.Roy Karl David, convicted of laying Rob Farley in a Harris County drive-in grocery holdup in 1967.Then Ray Thames, convicted f the fatal shooting of Billy GuyTolleson. operator of theStarlight Club in Kort Worth.Cornelius Tea, convicted of the 1970 murder of Robert Farley at the checkpout counter of aHarris lt;ounty store.Samuel Matthews, convicted ■ ! fatally shooting the Lavaca County sheriff in 1969 whilebeing transported to the county jail in Halletsville Ai lice J. Huffman, convicted ot the fatal stabbing of Harry S. lt;rigar, a 76-year-old hotel operatoi in Harris County I .eopoldo Morales.Calvin Sellars, convicted of armed robbery of Mari Schepp in I lai ris ( ounty in 1964 Billy Stanley, convicted of killing Linda Magers Stanley with his firsts in 1969 inMlt; Kinney.I liner branch, convicted of rape1' f. McKenzie, sentenced in Tan ant County for the murdeinf W C. Davis Jr,Robert Curry, convicted m 1969 in McLennan County ofmurdering, hr, 4-year-old son,Ronald.
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Brownwood Bulletin
Brownwood, Texas, US
Fri, Jun 30, 1972
Page 6
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