11 June 2010 :

Jose Briseno wins new punishment trial. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out the 1992 death sentence of Jose Briseno, 53, hispanic. The court ruled jurors who decided Briseno should be put to death didn't have enough information in their instructions from the trial judge about how to consider mitigating evidence of Briseno's unstable family, troubled background, limited intellectual ability and poverty. The case now returns to the Webb County court in Laredo where Briseno was convicted for a new punishment trial. Briseno was convicted of gunning down Dimmit County Sheriff Ben "Doc" Murray, 68, on Jan. 6, 1991.