JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by death row inmate Justin Underwood, who said prosecutors withheld polygraph test results that could have helped his case.
Underwood was convicted in 1995 in Madison County in the slaying of a Flora woman, Virginia Ann Harris, whose body was found near a lake in Madison County.
Underwood had been arrested on an unrelated burglary charge but allegedly confessed to killing the woman. He allegedly claimed Harris begged to be killed.
In his appeal, Underwood said polygraph tests on the victim's husband were inconclusive and that could have helped his case.
The court disagreed in a ruling Thursday, saying the tests weren't inconclusive and weren't admissible in court, anyway.
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