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Elkie Lee Taylor

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In today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, John Moritz reports, "Supreme Court rejects appeal by death row inmate from Fort Worth."The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the case of a Fort Worth killer whose lawyers said should be spared the death penalty because he was mentally retarded when he and an accomplice strangled a 65-year-old war veteran during a 1993 robbery. The action, two days before the 15th anniversary of the crime, means that the last hope for Elkie Lee Taylor to avoid lethal injection in Huntsville might be that the Supreme Court strikes down the method of execution employed by Texas and 36 other states and the federal government. Justices are expected to issue their much-anticipated ruling later this year...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).