Three Houston-area death row convicts lose appeals
HOUSTON
Dexter Darnell Johnson was convicted of the June 2006 shooting
deaths of a young couple during a carjacking.
Johnson's case is one of three Texas death row cases -- all from
Houston -- acted on by the high court Monday.
Justices also upheld the conviction of 54-year-old Max Soffar,
who was retried in 2006 for a shooting rampage at a bowling alley
that killed three in 1980.
And the court has refused to rehear its rejection of an appeal
from Linda Carty, a 51-year-old British grandmother convicted of
murdering a 20-year-old woman and kidnapping the victim's newborn
son in 2001.
