Texas court overturns two death sentences The Texas...

Texas court overturns two death sentences The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today overturned two death sentences, one for an inmate it says is mentally retarded and another for a man police said aided in the ambush killing of an officer. The court said Willie Mack Modden, who has twice been convicted and sentenced to death, is retarded and barred from execution under the Constitution. The man, whose sentence was reduced to life in prison, was convicted of murder in the July 29, 1984, stabbing of Deborah Davenport, 27, who was robbed and killed while working the late shift at a convenience store. The court also overturned the conviction and death sentence for Kenneth Vodochodsky because it said the evidence did not support the jury's findings that he helped suicide shooter Jeremiah Engleton set a trap for police officers in October 1999 in Atascosa County. The court ordered Vodochodsky's case back to trial court for consideration.