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Feb 1, 2023 · Texas. On January 21, 2023, Texas death row prisoner Terence Andrus hanged himself at the age of 34, a little more than 6 months after the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of his case for a second time. His lawyer, Gretchen Sween, told the Los Angeles Times that “he’d been careening toward the abyss,” since their decision. “He was broken.”
Jun 13, 2022 · Washington CNN — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the death sentence of a Texas inmate, rejecting his arguments that Texas state courts had failed to follow the justices’ earlier ruling in...
Feb 1, 2022 · 02.01.2022. Death Sentences. They Went to Prison as Kids. Now They’re on Death Row. Fight clubs, solitary confinement and neglect make juveniles angrier and more violent. Terence Andrus suffered through brutal conditions in abusive Texas youth prisons before eventually ending up on death row. Arturo Olmos for The Marshall Project.
Jan 26, 2023 · Most of the 181 death-sentenced men in Texas have been on the Polunsky Unit’s notorious death row for years. About 75 have been in these conditions for more than two decades. Texas’ male...
Jun 13, 2022 · Two years ago, the Supreme Court determined that Terence Andrus, a death row inmate in Texas, received unconstitutionally ineffective legal counsel at his murder trial. On Monday, the Court...
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Dec 6, 2021 · Organizations advocating for the rights of abused children and those with mental illness and for fair process are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to, for a second time, summarily reverse a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) decision that upheld the death sentence imposed on Terence Andrus (pictured) despite defense counsel’s failure to investigate and present a “tidal wave” of ...
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Pretty much the safest place he has ever lived was death row; death row had given him a chance to try to raise himself up through self-reflection; and yet his presence on death row meant that he had been declared “irredeemable.”
