Two Death Row Appeals Rejected
Posted/updated on: October 12, 2011 at 4:29 pm
HOUSTON (AP/Staff) – The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down the appeals of two inmates on Texas death row, including one from East Texas. Justices have declined to review the case of Beunka Adams. He was sentenced to die for fatally shooting a disabled man, Kenneth Vandever, in 2002 during a convenience store robbery in Rusk. Two women working at the store were abducted and shot. One was raped. The justices also decided not review the case of Felix Rocha, who was convicted of fatally shooting a security guard in Houston.
