THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, October 8, 1996 TAG: 9610080289
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: 19 lines
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeals of three Virginia death row inmates. The justices did not comment in rejecting the appeals of Lem Tuggle, Christopher Goins and Michael Williams.
Tuggle is the last survivor of a six-inmate gang that engineered the largest death-row escape in U.S. history in 1984. He was sentenced to die for the 1983 rape and murder of a woman in Smyth County.
Goins killed five people in a Richmond apartment in 1994. The victims were relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was seven months pregnant with Goins' child. Williams was sentenced to die for the murders of a Cumberland County couple in 1993. by CNB