ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, November 19, 1996 TAG: 9611190121
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused, without comment, to hear the appeal of a Virginia death row inmate who admitted taking $4,000 to kill a businessman's wife.
Marlon Dwayne Williams pleaded guilty to the November 1993 murder-for-hire of Helen Bedsole in Chesapeake. Her husband, Clark Bedsole, was sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted him in August of setting up the contract killing.
The Virginia Supreme Court had ruled that Williams' sentence was ``neither excessive nor disproportionate.''
- Associated Press
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