{"id":355233,"date":"2015-05-19T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355233"},"modified":"2015-05-20T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:24:02","slug":"east-texan-condemned-for-mothers-slaying-loses-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355233","title":{"rendered":"East Texan Condemned for Mother&#8217;s Slaying Loses Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/th10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/th10-148x200.jpg\" alt=\"th\" width=\"148\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-355234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/th10-148x200.jpg 148w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/th10.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from a 54-year-old East Texas man sent to death row for strangling his mother, leaving her body in the bathtub at her home for two days, and then burying her in her backyard more than 11 years ago. Tracy Beatty went to the high court after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last summer rejected arguments he had deficient legal help at his 2004 trial in Tyler for the slaying of Carolyn Click, 62. The justices refused his appeal Monday without comment. Beatty had been paroled to his mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home in Tyler from a 15-year prison term for theft from Dallas County. When arrested for her slaying, he already was in jail for auto theft and weapons possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review an appeal from a 54-year-old East Texas man sent to death row for strangling his mother, leaving her body in the bathtub at her home for two days, and then burying her in her backyard more than 11 years ago. Tracy Beatty went to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texan Condemned for Mother&#8217;s Slaying Loses Appeal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":355234,"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-355233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 10:21:58","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\/355233","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=355233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355452,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355233\/revisions\/355452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}