Top Texas court reduces killer’s death sentence to life

HOUSTON (AP) — A man on death row for killing a sheriff’s deputy during a 1983 bank robbery near San Antonio has had his sentence reduced to life in prison by the state’s highest criminal court.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals says 55-year-old Pedro Solis Sosa’s intellectual disabilities make him ineligible for execution.Sosa’s trial court recommended the sentence be reduced, and the appeals court cited a March ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in another Texas