Prisoner on Texas death row found dead in prison cell

LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) — A convicted killer sentenced to death three times for the 1983 botched robbery and fatal shooting of a Houston bar owner has died on Texas death row of apparent natural causes.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst says 71-year-old Raymond Deleon Martinez was found unresponsive Wednesday in his cell at the Polunsky Unit outside Livingston.
Martinez’s original death sentence was overturned in 1988 for a jury selection problem. A second de