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New Sentencing Hearing for Charles Mines

By Kristin Houle

The Houston Chronicle/Associated Press reports that Charles Mines, who has been on death row since 1989, has received a new sentencing hearing ("Longtime Texas death row inmate wins new sentencing trial," February 27, 2008):"A death row inmate who killed an 80-year-old woman with a claw hammer nearly two decades ago will get a new sentencing trial because jurors didn't properly consider mental illness when they decided he should be executed, an appeals court has ruled.Charles Mines Jr., 58, was convicted of killing Vivian Moreno at her home in Waxahachie, south of Dallas. Frances Moreno, 57, one of the murdered woman's 13 children, also was severely beaten in the same attack in May 1988. A relative found the two women on the floor in a bedroom...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prevention Not Punishment on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).