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About Raymond Riles
- Raymond George Riles (born June 1, 1950) is a prisoner in Texas who has been on death row longer than anyone else in that state.
- He was convicted of the 1974 capital murder of John Henry, a Houston used-car salesman, and sentenced to death.
- Though he was ruled competent to stand trial in the 1970s, Riles was subsequently diagnosed with mental illness.
- He is being held indefinitely on death row because he has been judged mentally unfit to be executed. Riles' initial death penalty case was reversed on appeal because prosecutors introduced evidence of a separate crime during that trial.
- Upon retrial, Riles was resentenced to the death penalty.
- In 1985, he was badly burned when he set his prison cell on fire in a suicide attempt.
- A 1986 scheduled execution was stayed because of concerns over whether the death penalty was disproportionately applied to black perpetrators with white victims. Officials in Harris County say that Riles' mental health is tested on a regular basis and that he could become eligible to be executed.
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