Associated Press - October 6, 2008 4:45 PM ET HOUSTON (AP) - A dozen condemned Texas inmates lost appeals today before the US Supreme Court, moving them closer to execution. Among those was Alvin Kelly, an East Texas man scheduled for execution next week in the 1984 death of a 22-month-old boy in a shooting near Longview that also left the boy's parents dead. The 57-year-old Kelly faces lethal injection October 14th, the first of 6 convicted killers set to die this month in the nation's most active death penalty state. Also losing today was Chelsea Richardson, a 24-year-old who is among 10 women on death row in...
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