Death Row Inmate Loses New Trial Bid

Marlon Howell

Howell

BY JACK ELLIOTT JR.
Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s decision to deny a new trial to death row inmate Marlon Howell, who was convicted in the 2001 slaying of a newspaper carrier.

In 2008, the state Supreme Court granted Howell a hearing in Union County Circuit Court on his challenge to the testimony of a prosecutor’s witness and arguments that his attorney didn’t do a good job.

A state judge threw out Howell’s arguments last May, denying Howell the new trial he sought.

Howell, now 34, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for killing David Pernell during a robbery. Pernel was a retired postman who delivered the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. He was killed after being was flagged down on a city street in New Albany.

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