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Longest Serving Texas Death Row Inmate Dies in Dallas

By Steve Hall

Today's Dallas Morning News reports, "Death-row inmate dies in Dallas awaiting new hearing." It's by Richard Abshire; reporter Jennifer Emily also contributed. Ronald Curtis Chambers, who held the record for the longest stay on Texas' death row at 35 years, died Friday in Dallas. Chambers, 55, was in the Dallas County jail to prepare for a new sentencing hearing when guards found him on the floor of his cell. He was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he died, said sheriff's spokeswoman Kim Leach. Jurors convicted Chambers of capital murder in the slaying of a college student and sentenced him to death in 1975, 1985 and 1992. Those convictions were all overturned on appeal. "There was never any material doubt about Chambers' guilt," said James Volberding of Tyler, who worked on his appeals from 1996 to 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 16, 2010 (boomark / email).