
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 1, 1994                   TAG: 9403010109
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

HIGH COURT REFUSES VA. DEATH-ROW APPEAL

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear Virginia death row inmate Timothy W. Spencer's appeal of one of his four capital murder convictions.

Without comment, the court rejected Spencer's appeal in the slaying of Debbie Dudley Davis, 35, in her Richmond apartment in September 1987. Justice Harry Blackmun, who opposes capital punishment under all circumstances, was the only dissenter.

Spencer, known as the "Southside Strangler," was sentenced to die in the electric chair after each conviction. - Associated Press

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