Reggie Clemons was convicted and sentenced to death in connection with the 1991 deaths of two young girls who were raped and pushed off an abandoned bridge in St. Louis.

On Nov. 24, the Missouri Supreme Court, by a 4-3 vote, vacated Clemons' conviction and sentence and remanded the case to the state for a decision on whether to retry him.

Clemons was within days of being executed in 2009. Now the court, following the lead of a special master, has ruled that the state had violated Clemons' Brady rights.