A Texas death row inmate was granted a new trial on Wednesday due to the sentencing judge's anti-Semitic bias against him. Randy Halprin, who was part of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners, had already won a reprieve from the death penalty in 2019.
Now an appeals court granted the new trial altogether as a result of the violation of due process, arguing there was "such a high degree of antagonism as to make fair judgement impossible." Halprin's lawyers detailed that Judge Vickers Cunningham used racial slurs and antisemitic language to refer to him and some of his co-defendants.
