Carnell Petetan, Jr., 41, who was sent to death row for the September 2012 murder of his estranged wife in Waco, lost an appeal Wednesday to the state’s highest criminal appellate court.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Petetan’s conviction and death sentence, rejecting an appeal in which his attorneys raised 30 points of error from his trial, during which the defense maintained Petetan was mentally impaired and thereby ineligible for the death penalty.
Appeals court Judge Elsa Alcala, who dissented, said Wednesday she would have waited to rule until the Supreme Court decides another case questioning the constitutionality of how Texas determines intellectual disability.
Petetan was convicted of capital murder in 2014 in the Sept. 23, 2012 shooting death of his wife, Kimberly Farr Petetan, 41, who was gunned down at an apartment complex on Lake Shore Drive.
The woman's 9-year-old daughter was reported missing after the shooting, but Waco police later confirmed she had been located.
She was in the apartment when her mother was killed.
Petetan was later arrested in Bryan.
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