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Reversed Texas Sentences ListedWASHINGTON (A Pi -]Tn c is a Texas breakdown ondefenrtans whose death sentences were directly sol aside by lhe Supreme Court. Thursday.Ail of 1 he defendants hart np-peals nr pel if Ions pendim; before the hi^h cmirl. Hie ju.s-tices ordered (he death sentences sot aside nnd instructed lower courls In apply Ihc 5-4 decision lhal Ihc death penally ?s presently used in I hr Unil-Ort Stales is unconsliIu(ioniil.The ma jority of I hr 600 defendants nn rteaHi rolls in 31 stales did not have appeals ponding in lhe high court. The a-4 decision presumably will wipe oul their death sentences also.Notion at \-l cl i s o n Wright, sentenced for murder.Chillies (\ Smith, sentenced in tflfifi for rape in Harris Counly.RoberI Kdclie Louis Jackson, sentenced in Newton c:o«nly in I he murder of Mrs. Mallicvv Nmvir*.Hoy Earl David, eon vie ted of slaying Hnb l-’arley in ;i Harris Counly drive-in grocery holdup in 1P07,Then Than in*; ronvirl.rd of the fatal shooting of Billy Guv Tnllo.son, operator ofIhe SUirlrJrf C’lul in Ym\ Worlh.Cornelius Tea. convicted or the HI70 murder nI Hubert Farley ;i( ihe rheekpout c/iunl-er nf ii Harris County slorn.Samuel Mullhew^ eonv etrd (if fa l ally shooting I lie l.avara County sheriff in Iflft) while beiny transported In I lie toun* ly jail in flallel.sville.Arlice 1- Huffman. cm\kind of (lie falal slabbing nf Harry S, Cr i^ar. a 7G*vearold hotel operator in Harris ( oun-iy.Calvin .Sellars, convicted of armed robhnry of Mari Sehepp in Harris Counlv in HIM.Hilly Stanley, convidmf of killing Linda Makers SI;inloywith his fi.sls in Jflfifl in McKinney.Klmor Branch, eonvidrid nf rape.1\ l„ McKenzie, .se men erf I in Tarranl County fnr themurder of \V. C. Davis ,)\\ RolvH Currv, ennvichxl in Infifl in MrLnnnan Counly of murdering his 4-year-old .son, Itonnld
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Abilene Reporter News
Abilene, Texas, US
Fri, Jun 30, 1972
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