Justices Reject Killer’s Death Sentence Appeal
United Press International
WASHINGTON —
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the appeal of a Tennessee Death Row inmate who killed a 16-year-old girl.
The justices refused to hear arguments from Charles Edward Hartman that the state’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional because the jury was not allowed under law to consider the defendant’s character or record as the basis for a sentence less than death.
Hartman was sentenced to die for the 1981 murder of Kathy Nishiyama of Clarksville.
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