OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction and
death sentence of a Chickasha man in the shooting death of a friend.
The court on Tuesday
rejected 35-year-old Ronson Kyle Bush's request for post-conviction
relief, including a hearing on a variety of legal issues involving his
first-degree murder conviction in the December 2008 death of Billy
Harrington. Bush was sentenced to die after he entered a plea in which
he did not admit guilt but acknowledged there was enough evidence to
convict him.
Prosecutors say Bush shot
Harrington several times after Harrington admitted having an affair with
Bush's ex-girlfriend. Prosecutors say Bush then tied Harrington to a
pickup truck and dragged him more than 200 yards into a pasture and left
him there to die.
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