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Texas Death Row found dead in prison cell" /> Raymond Deleon Martinez Texas Death Row found dead in prison cell" /> Raymond Deleon Martinez LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) - A convicted killer sentenced to death three times for the 1983 botched robbery and fatal shooting of a Houston bar owner has died on Texas death row of apparent natural causes. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst says 71-year-old Raymond Deleon Martinez was found unresponsive Wednesday in his cell at the Polunsky Unit outside Livingston. MUGSHOTS: TEXAS DEATH ROW -->  http://www.ktxs.com/147315846 Martinez's original death sentence was overturned in 1988 for a jury selection problem . A second death sentence was thrown out in 2007 for a jury instructions issue . He returned to death row in 2009 after a third punishment trial. Evidence showed Martinez , identified as a prison gang leader , was among three people who in July 1983 entered the Long Branch Saloon in H...

Condemned Texas inmate set to die next week gets reprieve" /> Steven Long Condemned Texas inmate set to die next week gets reprieve" /> Steven Long HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted next week's scheduled execution of a man condemned for the rape-slaying of an 11-year-old Dallas girl in 2005. The court said in a brief order Monday it wanted additional review of arguments that 45-year-old Steven Long is mentally impaired . The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled mentally impaired people may not be executed. Mugshots: Texas Death Row --> http://www.ktxs.com/147315846 Long was set for lethal injection Aug . 30 for the slaying of Kaitlyn Briana Smith . She disappeared May 21, 2005, after spending the night at a friend's home in her Dallas neighborhood. Her body was found in a plastic bag under a nearby vacant mobile home . Long's bloody fingerprint was found near her body. He confessed later that day, blaming the attack ...