One of the day’s most striking stories came from the U.S. justice system. Clarence Curtis Jordan, now 70 years old, had his death sentence overturned by Texas’s highest criminal court after spending an extraordinary 47 years on death row — one of the longest such stretches in American history. Jordan was first convicted in 1978 for the murder of Joe L. Williams, a 40-year-old Houston grocer. Described as a “forgotten” inmate, his case raises profound questions about the pace and fairness of capital punishment in the United States.
Walter Murrow
April 11, 2026
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