WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Courtroom is leaving in place the sentence of a lady on loss of life row in Alabama who helped her boyfriend kill his two younger youngsters.
The excessive court docket on Monday rejected an attraction from attorneys for Heather Leavell-Keaton. As is typical, the court docket rejected the case with out remark.
Leavell-Keaton was convicted of homicide within the loss of life of 3-year-old Chase DeBlase and manslaughter within the loss of life of his sister, 4-year-old Natalie DeBlase. Prosecutors mentioned she poisoned the kids with antifreeze. There was additionally proof the kids’s father, John DeBlase, strangled them. The kids’s stays have been discovered within the woods in Alabama and Mississippi.
Leavell-Keaton was initially sentenced to loss of life in 2015. A brand new sentencing listening to was ordered, nevertheless, after a court docket discovered that the decide who sentenced Leavell-Keaton to loss of life erred by failing to provide her an opportunity to talk on her personal behalf earlier than sentencing. She was sentenced to loss of life once more in 2021.
Leavell-Keaton ‘s attorneys argued of their petition to the Supreme Courtroom that at the latest sentencing listening to she ought to have been given the chance to current proof of her good conduct in jail between 2015 and 2021.
Leavell-Keaton is one in every of 5 ladies on loss of life row in Alabama.
John DeBlase was additionally convicted within the loss of life of the kids in a separate trial and sentenced to loss of life. He stays on loss of life row.