Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 9:47 a.m.
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HOUSTON, TEXAS (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused appeals from three Texas death row inmates, including one set to die this month.
The high court Monday refused to review the case of 45-year-old Gerald Cornelius Eldridge, facing execution Nov. 17 for the fatal shootings of his former girlfriend and her daughter in Houston almost 17 years ago.
The justices also rejected appeals from 37-year-old Rigoberto Avila, sent to death row for stomping his girlfriend's baby to death nearly 10 years ago in El Paso, and from 40-year-old John Balentine, condemned for the slaying of three teenagers in Amarillo almost 12 years ago.
Balentine won a reprieve from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in September a day before he was scheduled
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