The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal in a

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to take up an appeal in the 1984 homicide of a lady who met the killer in the parking zone of a Tallahassee shopping center.

Justices, as is frequent, didn’t clarify their causes for declining to take up the appeal filed by attorneys for Joe Elton Nixon, now 60. Nixon was convicted and sentenced to demise in the August 1984 kidnapping and homicide of Jeanne Bickner.

A quick in the Florida Supreme Court filed by Legal professional Basic Ashley Moody’s workplace stated Nixon requested Bickner for assist jump-starting a automobile in a mall parking zone after which requested for a experience to his uncle’s home. He directed her to a distant space of Leon County, the place he tied her to a tree with jumper cables and murdered her, together with burning her physique, in accordance to the transient.

The Florida Supreme Court final 12 months turned down an appeal in which Nixon contended he ought to be shielded from the demise penalty as a result of he’s intellectually disabled. Nixon’s attorneys then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.