USA - Texas. New penalty trial for Angel Galvan Rivera, 56, Hispanic, on death row since 1986.

New penalty trial for Angel Galvan Rivera, 56, Hispanic, on death row since 1986. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed with a trial judge's findings that Angel Galvan Rivera had poor legal help at his 1986 trial in El Paso. Rivera's appeals lawyers argued his trial attorneys didn't properly investigate Rivera's background or present evidence that could have convinced jurors to decide on a sentence other than death. Rivera was 27 when 62-year-old Iona Dikes and 82-year-old Julia Fleenor were found strangled at their home on October 15, 1984. The house had been set on fire. Evidence also showed they both had been raped.