Comedian Jeff Ross named in Texas inmate's death row case
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Jeff Ross' 2015 Comedy Central special from Texas jail was named in a Supreme Court petition claiming inmate was sentenced to death due to footage from show.
Footage from "Jeff Ross Roasts Criminals: Live At Brazos County Jail" was then "introduced against Petitioner at the penalty phase of his trial, and he was sentenced to death," according to the petition. Tracy Wright is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Send story tips to tracy.wright@fox.com.
Hall confessed to murdering retired Texas A&M University professor and disabled veteran Edwin Shaar and stabbing his wife Linda Shaar in their College Station home in 2011. At the time, Hall was an 18-year-old student at A&M Consolidated High School.
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