Texas high court refuses appeals from 3 death row inmates
Published 9:30 am Thursday, January 15, 2015
HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has refused appeals from three death row inmates, including an Austin man convicted of stabbing his victim 107 times.
Milton Gobert was condemned in 2010 for the slaying of 37-year-old Mel Cotton at Cotton’s home. Cotton’s 5-year-old son also was stabbed but survived.
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The court on Wednesday also rejected appeals from 35-year-old Tarus Sales and 56-year-old Barney Fuller.
Sales was described at his 2003 trial as a Nashville, Tennessee, drug dealer who ordered the killing of a Houston mall security guard, Tyrone Butler. Butler had witnessed a parking lot drug deal.
Fuller, from Lovelady in East Texas, was convicted of fatally shooting his neighbors, Nathan and Annette Copeland, in 2004 after a series of disputes.
None of the three has an execution date.