The Associated Press
HOUSTON — A Detroit man condemned for murdering a fellow inmate while they both were locked up in a federal prison in Texas has lost an appeal of his conviction and death sentence, moving him a step closer to execution.
David Lee Jackson was sentenced to die for the 1999 stabbing death of prisoner Daryl Brown, a convicted New York bank robber, during a fight at the federal penetentiary in Beaumont. At the time, Jackson was imprisoned for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
Jackson raised a dozen points of trial error in his appeal to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. All were turned down Monday.
Jackson is on the federal death row in Terre Haute, Ind.