Lawyers for convicted Houston rapist and killer Robert James Campbell this week launched appeals in state and federal courts in a near-last-minute bid to save their client from execution on Tuesday.
Campbell, 41, was condemned for the Jan. 3, 1991, murder of 20-year-old Bank One teller Alexandra Rendon, who was abducted while fueling her car at a service station near her southwest Houston home.
In a petition filed Monday with Harris County's 232nd state District Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, attorney Robert Owen argued that Campbell has an IQ of 69, and therefore suffers a mental disability and is ineligible for execution. Owen also asserted that Campbell had suffered from inadequate legal representation.
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Campbell, 41, was condemned for the Jan. 3, 1991, murder of 20-year-old Bank One teller Alexandra Rendon, who was abducted while fueling her car at a service station near her southwest Houston home.
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