Texas death sentence again thrown out over disability claims

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ highest criminal court has again vacated the death sentence of a Dallas man so that a jury can reconsider whether he’s intellectually disabled.
The ruling Wednesday is the second time the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned the death sentence of Kenneth Wayne Thomas. He was convicted in 1987 of fatally stabbing the wife of a Dallas civil rights lawyer who was also killed in the attack.
The same court in 2010 vacated his first death sentenc