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| Death Row Inmate Loses Appeal |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/19/2003 |
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A man sentenced to death for killing the owners of a dry-cleaning business in Lexington, Ky. in 1990 has lost an appeal before the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-member panel of the appellate court yesterday rejected Thomas Bowling's numerous attacks on the case. The 17-page ruling was issued Wednesday. The appeal had raised the specter of another killer and complained that prosecutors misbehaved during the trial. The appeal accused Bowling's three trial lawyers of incompetence and spending less than an hour preparing his defense. The appeals court said the claims were unsubstantiated. The 50-year-old Bowling can now ask for the entire Sixth Circuit to hear his appeal and has the right to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. He has already been through state and lower federal courts, all of which upheld his conviction and sentence. Bowling was sentenced to die in January 1991 for killing Eddie and Tina Earley, owners of the Earley Bird Cleaners, who were shot in their car outside their shop. Their 2-year-old son, Christopher, was also shot in the assault, but he survived. |
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