Texas appeals court rejects innocence ruling for death-row woman
A Texas appeals court has rejected a ruling that a woman who has spent 18 years on death row is innocent of murdering her two-year-old daughter, ABC News US reported. The case has drawn bipartisan calls from lawmakers and celebrities for her release, but the supplied material gives no further detail on the court’s reasoning.
A Texas appeals court on Thursday rejected a ruling that a woman on death row for 18 years is innocent of capital murder in the death of her two-year-old daughter, ABC News US reported. The decision concerns a case that has attracted attention from both lawmakers and celebrities. According to the supplied report, those figures have made bipartisan calls for the woman to be released.
The report did not identify the woman, the court, the judges involved or the reasoning behind the rejection. It also did not explain the earlier ruling that had found her innocent. The available material does not provide details of the prosecution’s evidence, the circumstances of the child’s death, the woman’s legal arguments or the next steps in the case.
The ruling leaves the dispute over the capital-murder conviction unresolved in the information supplied. ABC News US’s account did not state whether the woman’s sentence or execution status changed following the appeals court’s decision.
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