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| High court declines appeal of Tennessee death row inmate |
| By AP |
| Published: 10/11/2004 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to consider the appeal of a Bedford County (Tenn.) man on death row for the execution-style murder of his three young sons and his ex-wife's four-year-old daughter. Daryl Keith Holton was scheduled to be executed in June, but in May the Tennessee Supreme Court delayed the execution until next June. Holton has said he was suffering from severe depression when he lined the children up and shot them with a rifle in November 1997 in Bedford County. Holton told the children and their half-sister that they were going Christmas shopping when he picked them up from their mother. The high court declined the appeal without comment. |
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