Texas court spares life of man who killed 11-year-old Tarrant County girl

Texas' top criminal appeals court on Wednesday ordered a man convicted of killing an 11-year-old Fort Worth girl be removed from the state's death row.

In a three-page opinion, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled by a 6-3 vote that Juan Ramon Meza Segundo does not qualify for execution because of intellectual disability under a recent Supreme Court standard. The appeals court reformed his death sentence to life imprisonment with parole possible, the only alternative sentence for capital murder available at Segundo's 2006 sentencing by a Tarrant County jury.

Between the girl's death and his arrest, Segundo raped and killed two women, according to a statement from the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office. Courts had rejected Segundo's attorney's appeals until the Supreme Court changed standards for intellectual disability in 2017, meaning previous rejections were based on "an unconstitutional standard," the state appeals court said.The court stayed Segundo's scheduled Oct. 10, 2018, execution five days before it was to occur.

he raped & killed 3 people, 1 a child, & will be eligible for parole in 2026. Makes NO sense. He either knows rape & murder are wrong & should remain on death row or IF he is too mentally disabled he sure shouldn’t be granted access to do it again. Our justice system is broken

This is why crime is rampant in America it's because liberal policiesAnd people

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