MIDLAND, Texas — Former death row inmate, Clinton Young, 41, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday in a retrial for a 2001 capital murder charge.
On November 26, 2001, Young was accused of murdering two people, he was released on bond and later convicted in 2003.
His conviction was tossed out in 2021 after the court discovered the prosecutor on the case worked for the judge. This was after Young spent 18 long years on death row.
Young had adamantly proclaimed his innocence since, and even had begun posting on social media about being innocent in the case he was involved in.
A release on Instagram from the Clinton Young Foundation (a nonprofit organization) founded by Merel Pontier with the Institute of Transnational law notified over 6,000 followers of the verdict.
"It is with a very heavy heart and complete shock that we have to announce that Clinton was convicted of capital murder and given a life sentence today," the post stated.
The post also stated that the outcome of the retrial will be going into the appeals phase.
