Thursday, October 21, 2010
Death Row Inmate's Appeal Rejected
KENTUCKY...
The Kentucky Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a death row inmate convicted of killing two men during separate robberies in 1989.
The justices found that 41-year-old Ronnie Lee Bowling's appeals amounted to an attempt to re-litigate issues that had previously been decided.
Bowling was sentenced to death Dec. 9, 1992 in Laurel County for the murders of gas station attendants Ronald L. Smith and Marvin Hensley.
Smith was killed during a robbery on Jan. 20, 1989. Hensley was robbed and killed at a different service station on Feb. 22, 1989.
Bowling, who served as his own attorney for the appeal, raised 49 issues mainly centered on the sufficiency of the evidence used to convict him.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 3:18 PM 
