Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has spared the life of a convicted murderer. Juan Ramon Meza Segundo was scheduled for execution for the rape and murder of an 11 year old girl in 1986. Cold case investigators arrested him 19 years after it happened. The court overturned Segundo’s sentence, finding he does not meet the U.S. Supreme Court’s recently established intellectual standards for a death sentence. The appeals court has reset that sentence to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.
