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The Texas Supreme Court has overturned a ruling by the state’s comptroller that had denied death-row exoneree
’s application for compensation and directed the comptroller to pay Brown the compensation mandated by state law.
Brown was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in 2005. Following his exoneration, he applied for compensation under Texas’ Tim Cole Act, but his application was denied because he had not been adjudicated “actually innocent” at the time charges against him were dismissed. After the trial court reopened his case and declared Brown actually innocent, Brown again applied for compensation. The comptroller denied the application again, this time asserting that the trial court had lacked jurisdiction to issue its declaration of innocence. The Texas Supreme Court admonished the comptroller that it lacked authority to question the trial court’s ruling and said that the comptroller had only a ministerial role in the compensation
Alabama Court vacates death sentence for a Huntsville man charged with shooting death of his child Lionel Francis (Source: WAFF) By WAFF 48 Digital Staff | December 16, 2020 at 3:56 PM CST - Updated December 16 at 5:14 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - In 2019 Lionel Francis was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of his 20-month-old daughter.
He was originally facing the death penalty, but a new decision will change his sentence to life without parole.
According to court documents, the jury recommended that Francis be sentenced to death. The Madison Circuit Court accepted the jury’s recommendation and sentenced Francis to death.
Now the Alabama court of criminal appeals has vacated the death sentence, saying that for the death penalty to be applied, there must be evidence of an aggravating circumstance.