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Clarence Curtis Jordan
Coverage of Clarence Curtis Jordan in the Nexus archive.
- Judge recommends medical parole for inmate who had been on Texas death row for 47 years
Clarence Curtis Jordan, who was on Texas death row for 47 years and is intellectually disabled, was resentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. A judge recommended medical parole for Jordan, who had no legal representation for decades.
- Texas court overturns sentence for man on death row for nearly 50 years
Clarence Curtis Jordan, a 70-year-old man with intellectual disabilities, had his death sentence overturned by the Texas court of criminal appeals after being found incompetent for execution. The court ruled his 1978 conviction for murder was flawed due to his intellectual disabilities and lack of legal representation for over 30 years.