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New jury returns Harris County man to death chamber for 1987 slaying


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New jury returns Harris County man to death chamber for 1987 slaying By St. John Barned-Smith
| November 21, 2014 | Updated: November 21, 2014 3:12pm

 

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    Photo By Brian Rogers/Harris County Sheriff’s Office
    Warren Darrell Rivers, 47, was convicted in 1987 for the killing of Carl Nance Jr., an 11-year-old boy found beaten, stabbed and abused with a broken broomstick. His case was returned on appeal for a new sentencing phase. Courtesy of Harris County Sheriff’s Office

Harris County jurors spent an hour, almost three decades ago, deciding Warren Darrell Rivers should die by lethal injection for torturing and killing a young boy.

Earlier this week a different group of jurors made the same conclusion.

Rivers, now 47, was one of dozens of inmates across the country whose cases were reversed when the Supreme Court ruled jurors should consider mitigation evidence in the punishment phase of death penalty trials. Scissors-32x32.png

 

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