The Stranger With the Tow Rope

In November 1996 a young man and his friends set out looking for robberies. When their car broke down, a stranger named Willie Johnson stopped and towed it. The young man shot Johnson in the neck with a shotgun and directed others to take his money; he later bragged about the shooting and made up a dance mocking Johnson's death. Convicted and sentenced to death, he later argued his trial lawyers were ineffective for not hiring a neuropsychologist to develop evidence of intellectual disability. A federal appeals court agreed and granted relief.