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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.
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