The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the upcoming execution of Clifton Williams on Tuesday — the court’s first stay of execution this year.

Williams, 34, was scheduled to die on June 21 for the 2005 murder of a 93-year-old woman during a home robbery in Smith County. But after his lawyers filed a new petition last month asserting that Williams is intellectually disabled, the court sent the case back to the trial court to hold a live hearing on the issue.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that people with intellectual disabilities aren’t allowed to be executed, and last year it knocked down Texas’ method for determining disability in the case of another death row inmate, Bobby Moore.

This story is developing and will be updated.

Source: Texas Tribune Blue Left News