US Supreme Court refuses appeals from 3 on Texas death row
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February 26, 2017
HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review appeals in three Texas death row cases, including one where a man pleaded guilty to a triple slaying in South Texas.
The high court's rulings moved two inmates closer to execution: LeJames Norman, 31, condemned for the 2005 shooting deaths of three people during a botched robbery of a home in Edna, about 100 miles southwest of Houston, and Bill Douglas Gates, 67, condemned for strangling a Houston woman in 1999.
Neither has an execution date.
Norman and an accomplice also now on death row, Ker'Sean Ramey, were convicted in the slay...
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