{"id":315300,"date":"2014-10-06T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=315300"},"modified":"2014-10-07T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T00:00:48","slug":"man-condemned-for-1996-tyler-slaying-loses-appeal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=315300","title":{"rendered":"Man Condemned for 1996 Tyler Slaying Loses Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/04\/Robert-Charles-Ladd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/04\/Robert-Charles-Ladd-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Charles Ladd\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-297282\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP) \u2013 The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a Texas death row prisoner convicted of the slaying of a Tyler woman at her apartment 18 years ago. The high court, without comment Monday, refused 57-year-old Robert Ladd\u2019s appeal. In April, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had turned down his appeal that he\u2019s mentally impaired and ineligible for execution. He was convicted of killing Vicki Ann Garner, 38, in 1996. She\u2019d been beaten with a hammer and her body, bound at the legs and wrists, was set on fire. At the time, Ladd was on parole after serving 13 years in prison for pleading guilty to three other slayings in Dallas. In 2003, he received a reprieve from the 5th Circuit about nine hours before his scheduled execution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2013 The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a Texas death row prisoner convicted of the slaying of a Tyler woman at her apartment 18 years ago. The high court, without comment Monday, refused 57-year-old Robert Ladd\u2019s appeal. In April, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had turned down his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=315300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Condemned for 1996 Tyler Slaying Loses Appeal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 22:03:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315388,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315300\/revisions\/315388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}