OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An
Oklahoma death row inmate is asking a state appeals court to overturn
his first-degree murder convictions and death sentence.
Oral arguments are
scheduled Tuesday before the Court of Criminal Appeals in the case of
Victor Cornell Miller. The 49-year-old Miller is 1 of 2 men convicted of
killing 77-year-old retired Tulsa banker Mary Agnes Bowles and
44-year-old Owasso trucking company owner Jerald Thurman on Aug. 31,
1999.
Investigators believe
Bowles was abducted from the Tulsa Promenade mall parking lot and taken
to a secluded area, where her killers confronted Thurman as they robbed
Bowles of her car.
The appeals court last year
upheld the conviction and death sentence of Miller's co-defendant,
48-year-old John Fitzgerald Hanson.
Death sentences for Miller and Hanson have been previously overturned on appeal.
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