Clarence Jordan has been a death row inmate for 47 years, yet his execution was never carried out. Jordan, now 68, was convicted of the 1977 murder and robbery of Houston grocery store worker, Joe Williams.
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Jordan was again convicted and sentenced to death in 1983. In 1987, it was determined Jordan was incompetent. By this time the US Supreme Court had ruled an incompetent person could not be executed even if they were competent at the time the crime was committed and at the time of trial. The OCFW is the post-conviction public defender for capital and forensic science cases. In Nov. 2024, Wolff filed a motion to be appointed Jordan’s attorney. Wolff said it does not appear Jordan had an attorney after he was declared incompetent in 1988.
Krocker’s 2000 memo also noted if the DA’s Office questioned whether Jordan was still incompetent prosecutors would need to file a motion challenging the diagnosis. No action appears to have been taken.In 2004, Krocker sent an email to the DA’s office noting the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure states the trial court “shall periodically order that the defendant be reexamined.
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