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Supreme Court Refuses to Examine Three Texas Cases

By Steve Hall

"US Supreme Court upholds Texas death convictions," is the title of Michael Graczyk's AP report via the Houston Chronicle.The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld death sentences for two Texas inmates, including a man accused of leading a gang responsible for several murders, and refused to reconsider the case of a British grandmother condemned for killing a woman and kidnapping her newborn son. Dexter Darnell Johnson, 22, was convicted of the June 2006 shooting deaths of a young couple during a carjacking. Investigators said the Houston man was the ringleader of a group responsible for dozens of robberies and at least four homicides.The justices also upheld the conviction of Max Soffar, 54, for a shooting rampage at a bowling alley that killed three people in 1980...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).