U.S. District Judge Sim Lake ordered the state to release death row inmate Theodore Goynes

U.S. District Judge Sim Lake ordered the state to release death row inmate Theodore Goynes from prison or grant a new sentencing hearing within 120 days because his low intelligence and history of mental illness were not considered when he was sentenced in 1991. Lake wrote: "Goynes is not retarded. He does, however, have very low intelligence and a long history of mental illness". Goynes confessed the Oct. 7, 1990 rape and murder of Linda Marie Tucker, 25.