Illegal Convicted of Murder:  A Mexican national in the U.S. illegally has been convicted of murdering a former co-worker and kidnapping her newborn baby in November of 2016.  Travis Fedschun of Fox News reports that a Dallas jury deliberated less than three hours Tuesday before finding Yesenia Sesmas guilty of first degree murder and kidnapping.  Evidence introduced at trial indicated that after suffering a miscarriage, Sesmas faked being pregnant until she learned that a former co-worker at a Wichita restaurant had given birth.  She then drove to Wichita, shot 27-year-old Laura Abraca and took her six-day-old baby.  In 2015, Sesmas was arrested for threatening another Wichita woman and trying to hold the woman's two daughters for ransom.  Before she could be tried, Sesmas was mistakenly released from custody and fled to Dallas.  She faces a possible life sentence for the murder.  

Texas Killer's Execution Stayed:  The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Tuesday to stay the June 21 execution of  condemned murder Clifton Lamar Williams.  Keri Blakinger of the Houston Chronicle reports that Williams had been sentenced to death for the brutal 2005 robbery and murder of 93-year-old Cecilia Schneider, whose body was set on fire after she was stabbed to death.  It a petition filed earlier this year Williams' attorneys argued that his IQ score in the mid 60s made him too intellectually disabled to be executed.   In its ruling the Texas court cited the U.S. Supreme Court's 2017 decision in Moore v. Texas which held that the state's process for determining a murderer's mental capacity was inadequate, as the basis for ordering a new hearing to evaluate Williams.