HOUSTON (AP) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected an appeal from a man on death row for the fatal stabbing 25 years ago of a Houston-area man whose body was found inscribed with a swastika and initials of a skinhead group.
The appeal for 47-year-old Brian Edward Davis stemmed from his 2011 retrial where Harris County jurors decided again he should be executed for the August 1991 slaying of 31-year-old Michael Foster.
Prosecutors said Foster offered Davis and his ex-wife, Tina McDonald, money in exchange for a ride home from a bar, then was attacked at his Humble apartment when said he couldn’t pay them. Davis blamed the killing on McDonald, who pleaded guilty to charges related to the slaying, received 40 years in prison and was paroled in 2014.
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